The parents of a 1-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a police officer in Mississippi have demanded a meeting with the state official who ruled that the shooting was justified. Kohen Wiley’s parents and a small group of activists led a protest Monday at the office of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch. Kohen was killed in June when a police officer in the small town of Senatobia fired his gun into a moving vehicle while responding to a shoplifting call. Kohen was with his mom and a friend, both of whom are Black. The protesters were met in the lobby by Fitch’s chief of staff, who said Fitch was not in the office.
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FILE - A banner for shooting victim Tyrin Johnson is seen on July 17, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
Indiana’s governor turned down a clemency request and says an execution planned for Thursday will go forward against a man who killed his girlfriend’s two children in 2010. Gov. Mike Braun said Monday he accepted the Indiana Parole Board’s recommendation to let the death sentence stand against Jeffrey Weisheit. The 50-year-old had a right to ask Braun to reduce the death sentence to a life sentence. Two children died in a house fire in the Evansville area 16 years ago. Their mother was at work at the time. Her relationship with Weisheit was breaking down.
New Mexico authorities have filed murder and other charges against the mother of a 10-year-old boy who shot and killed a teenage neighbor in a dispute over loud music. Elaina Gomez-Villeda is facing an open count of murder and other charges ahead of a first court appearance scheduled later Monday. Police say Gomez-Villeda asked her neighbor and the woman's daughter to turn down their music Saturday and a fight ensued. A criminal complaint states that during the fight, Gomez-Villeda allegedly told her son to go get her handgun. Police say the boy returned with the gun and fired once, killing the teen. Authorities say the investigation is ongoing and that the boy has not been charged.
Elected officials are decrying a spike in mass shootings across the U.S. over the Halloween weekend. The shootings that happened in largely nightlife districts left at least eight people dead and dozens more injured. Federal authorities in Dallas plan to address their response to a series of shootings that left four people dead and 15 injured in the city's Deep Ellum neighborhood. Elsewhere, about a half dozen shootings occurred in entertainment areas around college campuses nationwide.
Lindsay Clancy returned to court in a bid to dismiss the charges that she murdered her three children. The hearing Monday is the second time the Massachusetts mother has been in court since her trial ended with a deadlocked jury. Clancy has never disputed killing her three young children in 2023, but her lawyer has argued she had postpartum psychosis and was unable to control her behavior. Prosecutors have acknowledged that the 36-year-old Clancy had mental health problems but said she acted deliberately and understood her actions were wrong. A judge declared a mistrial Sept. 4 after jurors were unable to agree on a verdict.
An Idaho appeals court is scheduled to hear Lori Vallow Daybell’s appeal of her convictions in Idaho for killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival. She is asking the Idaho Supreme Court on Monday to reverse her convictions in the deaths of Joshua “JJ” Vallow, Tylee Ryan and Tammy Daybell, whose husband married Vallow Daybell weeks later. Vallow Daybell holds doomsday religious beliefs and claimed people in her life had been possessed by evil spirits. She also has been convicted in Arizona for conspiring to murder her estranged husband and her niece’s ex-husband.
French authorities have expressed relief after recent protests over rising living costs resulted in less violence than previous weekends. High schools at the heart of the movement reopen Monday after their autumn break. Germany faced challenges after nationwide protests Saturday ended with rioters attacking police and looting stores in some cities. Around Europe, hundreds of thousands held marches Saturday inspired by young people that were overwhelmingly peaceful despite scattered unrest. In Paris, rioters targeted police with Molotov cocktails at the end of Saturday’s march on the city’s eastern edge, injuring three officers and setting a car ablaze.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says President Donald Trump has agreed to grant a visa to the mother of a 15-year-old immigrant from Ghana who was shot to death earlier this week. New York City police said the teen was shot in the abdomen Thursday morning. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. No arrests have been made. Mamdani wrote Saturday on X that Javits Frimpong’s mother deserves to say goodbye to her son in person and that he had spoken with Trump, who agreed to grant her a visa. U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres from the Bronx says Frimpong arrived in the borough from Ghana a year ago to be with his father.
A shooting at a mall in Fairfield, California, has left one person dead and six injured. Police say the incident happened on Friday night inside the Spirit Halloween store in Solano Town Center. Seven people were confirmed to have gunshot wounds, and one later died. The others have been taken to local hospitals, with at least three in critical condition. There is no further information on the victims' identities or details of the shooting. Police say the location remains an active crime scene, and officers are talking to witnesses to identify the suspect.