Mississippi officer resigns after fatal shooting of 1-year-old

🗞️ Story file #862

Mississippi officer resigns after fatal shooting of 1-year-old

Oct 22, 11 PM ET to Oct 25, 5 PM ET

12outlets carried it
🫏8 · 3 · 1🐘left · center · right
2.7 dayson the front pages
15front pages at once, at its peak
38 sof TV captions
3radio newscasts
18people retold it online
3 of 3parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 22, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: NBC News
Oct 23, 1 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 23, 7 PM ETpeak: on 15 front pages
Oct 24, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 24, 8 AM ETretold online by 18 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 22, 11 PM to Oct 25, 5 PM ET (peak 11), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Justified” “justified”

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Mississippi officer who fatally shot 1-year-old resigns” → “Officer who fatally shot 1-year-old resigns”
CBS News (3 wordings): “Video shows moments leading up to police fatally shooting toddler” → “Police officer who shot and killed 1-year-old resigns”
CNN (2 wordings): “Mississippi officer resigns after fatal shooting of 1-year-old in car outside Walmart during pursuit” → “Mississippi officer and interim police chief resign after officer’s fatal shooting of 1-year-old in car during pursuit”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “Police Officer Who Shot And Killed 1-Year-Old Child In Mississippi Has Resigned” → “Police Officer Who Shot And Killed Mississippi Toddler Has Resigned”
NBC News (3 wordings): “Mississippi releases video showing fatal police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley” → “Police officer who fatally shot 1-year-old Kohen Wiley has resigned”

Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Police Officer Who Shot And Killed 1-Year-Old Child In Mississippi Has Resigned Oct 23, 1 PM ET
The Guardian Officer who shot and killed Black toddler in Mississippi resigns from police force Oct 23, 1 PM ET
The Intercept Bodycam: Cop Was Not in Danger When He Fired Shots That Killed 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley Oct 23, 5 PM ET
ABC News Mississippi officer who fatally shot 1-year-old resigns Oct 23, 4 PM ET
CBS News Video shows moments leading up to police fatally shooting toddler Oct 21, 3 PM ET
CNN Mississippi officer resigns after fatal shooting of 1-year-old in car outside Walmart during pursuit Oct 23, 10 AM ET
NBC News Mississippi releases video showing fatal police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley Oct 22, 11 PM ET
The Independent Officer who fatally shot 1-year-old in car in Mississippi resigns Oct 23, 5 PM ET
Reason Mississippi Cop Who Shot 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley Resigns After State Calls Shooting 'Justified' Oct 23, 2 PM ET
Reuters Police officers resign after fatal shooting of Black child in Mississippi Oct 24, 8 AM ET
Straight Arrow News Mississippi officer who shot and killed 1-year-old resigns Oct 23, 2 PM ET
New York Post Police officer who shot and killed 1-year-old boy in Mississippi has resigned, mayor says Oct 23, 1 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN38 s

OFFICER, INTERIM CHIEF RESIGN AFTER FATAL SHOOTING OF 1-YEAR-OLD CNN, 38 s

📻 On the radio

ABC News Update, Oct 23, 9:32 PM ET: story 4 of 4
NPR News Now, Oct 23, 9:09 PM ET: story 3 of 8
ABC News Update, Oct 23, 1:06 PM ET: story 4 of 7

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

A Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley during a shoplifting call and has since resigned. Oct 24: told by 18 people; told before on Oct 20
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky

🦋 a post on Bluesky · 123 likes, 45 reposts
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 9 likes, 3 reposts

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Mississippi Kohen Wiley Family Of A 1-Year-Old Mississippi男孩

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Mississippi fatal police shooting

Mississippi AG rules fatal police shooting of 1-year-old as justified
Oct 19, 7 PM ET
Mississippi releases video of fatal police shooting of 1-year-old
Oct 24, 12 AM ET
Mississippi officer resigns after fatal shooting of 1-year-old (this story)
Oct 22, 11 PM ET