{
  "id": 15657114,
  "title": "Mississippi attorney general rules fatal police shooting of one-year-old as ‘justified’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/mississippi-attorney-general-rules-fatal-police-shooting-of-one-year",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-19T20:58:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/19/mississippi-attorney-general-kohen-wiley-killing-justified"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Officers responding to an alleged shoplifting call fired into the vehicle of Vellesiya Wiley, killing her son, Kohen On Monday, the office of the Mississippi attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced that the police shooting of Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old, as he sat in his mother’s lap “was justified”. The statement came four months after the baby was killed in Senatobia, Mississippi. On 14 June,…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "PBS NewsHour",
        "title": "Mississippi attorney general says officer's force was justified in death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/mississippi-attorney-general-says-officers-force-was-justified-in",
        "published": "2026-10-19T22:10:32.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}