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“Senatobia Police Department get away with too much stuff,” WREGH reported Kohen’s great-grandmother Carolyn Stokes, as saying. “I hear about it all the time. It’s in the news all the time. Y’all probably down here all the time, recording this stuff, but it’s just too much.”
Members of the community plan to gather at Senatobia City Hall at 5 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon to call for accountability for Kohen Wiley’s killing.
The Senatobia Police Department released a statement on social media shortly after the shooting, acknowledging that the investigation had been turned over to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and promising eventual transparency.
“The Senatobia Police Department is currently investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred today at approximately 2:05 PM at Walmart,” the June 14 statement said. “Preliminary reports indicate that officers responded to a report of shoplifting, which led to officers discharging their firearms.”
Walmart released a statement to Action 5 News in Memphis.
“We’re saddened by what took place at our Senatobia, MS, store,” the statement reads. “The safety of our associates and customers is a top priority. We’re working with law enforcement as they continue investigating.
Mississippi Correction: An earlier version of this story mistakenly said there was a bullet hole in the “passenger side window” due to an error introduced in editing. It should have said that the bullet hole in the passenger side of the windshield. We apologize for the error.