One-year-old boy shot dead by police responding to shoplifting

A little boy was killed in a car with his mum and aunt after a police officer opened fire on their vehicle.

Kohen Kartier Wiley, one, was fatally shot by a Mississippi police officer who was responding to an alleged shoplifting incident at a Walmart branch.

Officers from the Senatobia Police Department said the boy’s mum and aunt had been driving ‘in the direction of officers’ before they opened fire.

A statement from the police department appears to show that officers knew that a child was in the car when they responded to the scene.

‘Upon arrival, officers encountered two subjects and a juvenile child fleeing from the store into a vehicle. Officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver drove in the direction of the officers, almost striking one,’ the department said.