{"id":80846,"date":"2026-11-03T12:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/officials-investigate-fire-at-mississippi-police-department-tied-to-fatal-shooting-of-black-toddler\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:55:25","slug":"officials-investigate-fire-at-mississippi-police-department-tied-to-fatal-shooting-of-black-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/officials-investigate-fire-at-mississippi-police-department-tied-to-fatal-shooting-of-black-toddler\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials investigate fire at Mississippi police department tied to fatal shooting of Black toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Person arrested after fire at police department where officer who shot and killed one-year-old Kohen Wiley had worked<\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of 31 October, a fire broke out at the Senatobia police department in Mississippi, which has been embroiled in controversy recently after one of its officers shot and killed Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old. Though the cause of the fire has not been reported, it is being investigated as arson by agents with the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.<\/p>\n<p>In June, then Senatobia police sergeant Hunter Foster shot Kohen as he sat in his mother\u2019s arms in a Walmart parking lot. Foster, who is white, was responding to a report of an alleged shoplifting; Kohen, his mother and the driver of the vehicle, are Black.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/03\/mississippi-police-department-fire-kohen-wiley\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Person arrested after fire at police department where officer who shot and killed one-year-old Kohen Wiley had worked In the early hours of 31 October, a fire broke out at the Senatobia police department in Mississippi, which has been embroiled in controversy recently after one of its officers shot and killed Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old. &#8230; <a title=\"Officials investigate fire at Mississippi police department tied to fatal shooting of Black toddler\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/officials-investigate-fire-at-mississippi-police-department-tied-to-fatal-shooting-of-black-toddler\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Officials investigate fire at Mississippi police department tied to fatal shooting of Black toddler\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}