Senatobia police finally released internal reports of the shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. They reveal almost nothing ...Middle East

Joseph Cranney is a reporter with the Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center in collaboration with The New York Times. Mukta Joshi is an investigative reporter at Mississippi Today. She is spending a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining immigration and criminal justice issues. 

Nearly a month after police in Mississippi shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley outside Walmart in Senatobia, department officials released a brief report Friday about the shoplifting call that led to the fatal encounter.

But the two-page report — obtained by Mississippi Today through a public records request — contains almost no details of what happened. It does not describe how many officers were present, name the officers who responded or explain why the call escalated into gunfire.

The official incident report, a document that would typically include such details along with officers’ narratives, states only that the department responded to the Walmart shortly after 1:30 p.m. involving alleged shoplifting of baby clothes and a large pack of Pampers Easy Ups diapers. At 2:04 p.m., Senatobia police were alerted that shots were fired, according to the department’s call logs.Vellesiya Wiley, Kohen’s 20-year-old mother, said later that her child was seated on her lap in the front passenger seat when officers fired three or four shots at their Ford Fusion, striking the toddler in the chest, and Wiley’s 22-year-old friend in her arm and thigh. The police report makes no mention of that, stating only that the vehicle was impounded shortly before 4:30 p.m. It also doesn’t say if there were any witnesses to the shooting.In its own statement, the Tate County Sheriff’s Office, which was also on the scene, said without referring to any agency that an unnamed officer fired at an “oncoming vehicle.”Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family, shared a photo July 2 showing the car’s front passenger window was shot out. Crump said it was evidence that police fired at the vehicle when they were beside the car and not in harm’s way. The photo also appears to show a bullet hole through the windshield, on the passenger side.In a Facebook post about three hours after the shooting, the Senatobia Police Department acknowledged that a shoplifting call “led to officers discharging their firearms.” The department pledged “full transparency.”

But the police department and the state’s public safety department, which is investigating the incident, have declined repeated requests from community activists and the media to release footage of the encounter. So has Walmart, even though its stores generally have sophisticated surveillance systems.A Walmart representative, Hannah Henderson, said company policy dictates that Walmart only share surveillance footage with law enforcement while an incident is under investigation. “We continue to work closely with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations and defer additional questions to them,” Henderson said.In the past three years, Senatobia police have, on average, responded to more than one call per day to the Walmart on U.S. Highway 51, according to call logs provided to Mississippi Today in response to a public records request. A roster of employees shows that the department has 11 patrol officers.

Unlike other notable police shootings in recent years, bystander video of the incident has been sparse. So far, local media have only reported on one video clip recorded by a witness. It captured the car driving away after the shooting and shows three law enforcement officers standing in the area.Lt. Shane Howell said Friday that Sgt. Hunter Foster was placed on administrative leave two days after the incident. Authorities haven’t said if Foster fired his gun, or if other officers fired theirs.

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