GBM Snugga deletes his page after snitching incident at Senatobia
Police were called to a Walmart store on 14 June after a report of baby supplies being allegedly stolen. According to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, officers arrived to find two women and a child walking towards a car.
Officers tried to stop the vehicle but it was allegedly driven at one of them, nearly striking an officer. One officer opened fire, fatally striking the boy and critically injuring the driver, Latoya Ferrell.
Kohen’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, has denied she or Ferrell were stealing and said she lifted her son up from her lap to show officers he was there before he was hit by gunfire.
“In this incident, the Attorney General’s Office found the use of force was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch wrote in a short statement on Monday.
Police have not released any footage from the shooting, including from officer-worn body cameras or CCTV recordings taken from the parking lot.
The Wiley family’s lawyer Benjamin Crump objected to Fitch’s finding, saying: “How can anyone accept that conclusion when Kohen’s family and the public still have not been allowed to see the body-camera footage?”
the compilation published by Darkhorse Press also captures the moments from more of a bird’s-eye view. In that footage, two women — one holding a child — are seen running toward a vehicle and reversing in it as law enforcement officers chase them.
More video of the incident has yet to be seen by the public. Kohen’s family is scheduled to view it Thursday morning. Veronica Roberson, the toddler’s grandmother, said state officials had informed the family that the footage included surveillance videos from Walmart, along with five body-worn cameras.
Hunter Foster, an officer with the Senatobia Police Department, was placed on leave while state authorities investigated his actions at the Walmart. Although he has not been named as the one who opened fire, Sergeant Foster is the only officer among those present that day who was placed on leave.
The shooting death touched off weeks of protests and calls for transparency in Senatobia, a city of roughly 8,400 located roughly 40 miles south of Memphis. Activists and Kohen’s family had been calling on the authorities to release police body-camera or dashcam footage.
