Police used 'justified' force in fatal shooting of one-year-old, says Mississippi attorney general
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Mississippi police used "justified" force when they shot at a car during a shoplifting investigation, killing a one-year-old boy inside, the state's attorney general has ruled.
Kohen Wiley was killed in June while sitting on his mother's lap in the passenger seat of a car that police say was being driven at officers in the city of Senatobia.
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