On Sunday, police shot at a car in the parking lot of a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. The Mississippi Free Press reports that officers responded to a shoplifting call at the store around 2 p.m. Witnesses told WREG they saw two women leaving the store holding a baby and a box of diapers before getting into a silver sedan. According to the witnesses, officers tried to stop the car, which took off, and at least one officer shot at the car. Wiley was later taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The Guardian reports that Wiley was in the car with his mother, Vellesiya, and her friend, who was driving. While Vellesiya was not hurt in the shooting, her friend — who has not been identified by name — was hospitalized with serious injuries. In a statement, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said that “officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver drove in the direction of the officers, almost striking one. An officer then discharged their weapon and the vehicle fled the scene.” The officer who shot Wiley has been placed on administrative leave, and the investigation is ongoing.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Wiley’s family, says they intend to seek justice. “Kohen Wiley was a baby. His mother, who has not been charged with any crime, says she was trying to communicate to officers that there was a baby in the car,” Crump said in a statement. “They fired anyway, leading to the death of an innocent 1-year-old.”

In a video Crump posted on Facebook, Vellesiya said officers tried to stop her friend, who was holding the diapers, when they were leaving Walmart. When they got in the car, Vellesiya said officers were running at them with their guns drawn. “I raised my baby up trying to show them that he was in the car,” she said. “By the time I sat my baby down, it was like three to four shots,” she said. According to Vellesiya, one shot hit her son in his rib cage, and two others hit her friend in her arm and thigh. Vellesiya denied that any shoplifting took place and said that her friend bought the diapers at self-checkout. She also disputed the claim that her friend drove toward the officers and tried to hit them. “They were all on the right side, and she was driving toward the left,” Vellesiya said.

“I’m just at a loss for words, to be honest,” Wiley’s grandfather, Carlos Haynes, told WREG. “Somebody needs to be held accountable for it.”

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