National civil rights attorney Ben Crump is part of the legal team representing the family of a child killed over the weekend in a law enforcement shooting in north Mississippi.
“A 1-year-old child is dead because police officers in Mississippi opened fire on a car in a crowded Walmart parking lot,” Crump said in a Tuesday statement. “ … We intend to seek justice for baby Kohen and the life that was stolen from him.”
Kohen Wiley was in the car with his mother and a family friend in the parking lot of a Walmart in Senatobia. Police and Tate County sheriff’s deputies were responding to an alleged shoplifting, and they tried to stop the car. State officials said the driver drove in the officers’ direction and nearly hit one, leading an officer to fire at the car.
Before the shooting, Kohen’s mother said she tried to tell officers that there was a child in the car, according to Crump’s statement. Family members told local media that the woman and family friend did not shoplift and were buying diapers.
Kohen later died from his injuries at a local hospital, and the family friend was critically injured.
Crump is representing the family with Memphis civil rights attorney Van Turner.
On Monday, Tate County Sheriff Luke Shepherddeclined comment about the shooting and is in the process of determining whether any deputies involved in the incident will be placed on administrative leave.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, which investigates all law enforcement shootings, will present findings to the attorney general’s office. From there, the attorney general’s office will review the officer’s use of force and present evidence to a local grand jury about potential criminal charges.
Crump has represented other Missisisppi residents, including the family of Demartravion “Trey” Reed, the 21-year-old Black man found hanging on Delta State University’s campus in September last year. Officials ruled his death a suicide, but questions from family, community members and beyond remained about whether there was any foul play.
He and attorney Vanessa Jones said in October they planned to launch an independent investigation. They have yet to reveal the results of the second autopsy, which was performed by Dr. Matthias I. Okoye.
Crump has also represented Mississippi residents in law enforcement-related deaths, such as the family of Dexter Wade, who was hit by a cruiser driven by an off-duty Jackson police officer on Interstate 55 and whose body was buried in the Hinds County pauper grave for months before family learned he was there.
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