Attorney says independent autopsy raises more questions about deadly shooting of 1-year-old outside Mississippi Walmart

The legal team for the family of a 1-year-old who was fatally shot as police in Mississippi responded to a shoplifting call at a Walmart said Wednesday that a preliminary autopsy indicated that the bullet that hit him entered through the car’s side, raising new questions about whether the shooting was justified.

The legal team for the family of a 1-year-old who was fatally shot as police in Mississippi responded to a shoplifting call at a Walmart said Wednesday that a preliminary autopsy indicated that the bullet that hit him entered through the car’s side, raising new questions about whether the shooting was justified.

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Attorneys Ben Crump and Van Turner, who are representing the family of Kohen Wiley, shared preliminary findings from an independent autopsy completed at the family’s request at a news conference in the north Mississippi community of Senatobia, about 40 miles south of Memphis.

Crump said District of Columbia-based forensic pathologist Dr. Roger Mitchell determined that Kohen died from a gunshot wound to the torso.