His life mattered. His future mattered. We will not be silent.
On Sunday, June 14, 2026, at about 2:05 in the afternoon, Senatobia police responded to a shoplifting call — baby clothes and diapers — in the Walmart parking lot on Highway 51. As the car Kohen was riding in left its parking space, an officer fired into the vehicle. Kohen was struck. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. He was one year old.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has said the car drove toward officers. Kohen's mother, Vellesiya Wiley, who was walking back to the car as it happened, disputes that account: she says the car was turning away from the officers when they fired.
An independent autopsy commissioned by the family's legal team and performed by Dr. Roger Mitchell found that Kohen died of a gunshot that entered his right chest, fired from the side. The ruling: homicide. As of late July 2026, the officer, placed on administrative leave two days after the shooting, has not been charged. The MBI's findings will go to the Mississippi Attorney General, who decides whether the case reaches a grand jury.
Release all Walmart surveillance footage from before and leading up to the incident.
Release all body camera and dash camera footage and audio.
Release internal police emails from three days before, the day of, and three days after the shooting.
Release the audio and full transcript of the alleged 911 call.
Full accountability for the officer — termination, decertification, arrest, and prosecution.
The street answers. The coalition leads the community response from the night of the shooting, with daily presence at the Walmart that follows.
City Hall, then tear gas. A rally at City Hall and protest at the Walmart; deputies deploy tear gas on protesters, injuring residents, journalists, and coalition president Marquell Bridges.
Six miles for Kohen. A march through Senatobia and a town hall at Fairway Christian Church, joined by the People's Advocacy Institute, Mississippi Center for Justice, JULIAN, Black Lives Matter Grassroots, Fair Fight, and partners from across the South.
Kohen is laid to rest at Hosanna Church in Pope, Mississippi. The same day, the coalition announces a national Walmart boycott: no justice, no peace, no profits.
A national day of protest — one month since Senatobia police killed Baby Kohen — with a call to boycott in all fifty states.
In the days after Kohen was killed, the community made signs, held vigil at the store where it happened — and shut it down three times in nine days. Scroll to move through the record.
The march for Kohen moved six miles through Senatobia — elders, children, clergy, and organizers from across the South, walking one road together.
The family's full campaign — the fund, the petition, and the complete record — lives at the dedicated Justice for Kohen site.
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