2026年4月15日 / 美国东部时间晚上10:14 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：阿什-哈尔·基亚希
用母亲的话来说，埃姆沙扬·威尔金斯是个“憨憨”，这个青少年喜欢逗人发笑，他的笑容甚至能化解最紧绷的时刻。他喜欢数学，擅长算数，还曾谈论过高中毕业后工作、攒钱、开启新生活的计划。
“我们几乎是一起长大的，”他的母亲沙伊娜·威尔金斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。她说自己生下他时年仅17岁。埃姆沙扬在去世前几周刚过完17岁生日。
如今，在他被圣路易斯一名警察枪杀近两年后，沙伊娜·威尔金斯表示，她仍在寻求真相和问责。
她的律师本周公布的随身摄像头录像显示了2024年6月的那场对峙，最终这名17岁少年在逃离警方时被击中后脑勺。这段录像与警方此前的声明相矛盾，警方当时称威尔金斯曾用枪指向警员。但录像中并未显示他持有或指向武器。
随身摄像头录像显示，2024年6月18日，17岁的埃姆沙扬·威尔金斯被圣路易斯一名警察枪杀。KMOV 摄
警方称，对峙始于侦探试图拦截一辆被报失窃的SUV。经过短暂追逐后，少年开始逃跑。一名警员大喊着命令他趴下、放下枪，随后警员开枪。四发子弹中的一发击中威尔金斯后脑勺，致其当场死亡。
根据威尔金斯家人提起的诉讼，警方后来在威尔金斯的口袋里发现了一把枪，但该枪已被拆解，无法发射。
沙伊娜·威尔金斯说，她在录像中看到的场景令人崩溃。
“我的儿子不会……他走了，再也回不来了，”她说，“他们对他太恶劣了。”
沙伊娜·威尔金斯的律师阿尔伯特·沃特金斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，事件背后还有更多未被最初报道披露的细节，包括威尔金斯是如何进入那辆SUV的。沃特金斯表示，这名少年用在麦当劳打工攒下的钱从社区里的一名男子手中买下了这辆车，当时他并不知道该车已被报失窃。
“他攒了钱，买下了那辆车，把钱付给了社区里的那个男人，”沃特金斯说，“当然，这部分情况没法被公开了，因为他已经死了。”
沃特金斯还表示，埃姆沙扬·威尔金斯口袋里那把拆解的枪根本无关紧要，一来它无法开火，二来密苏里州是隐蔽持枪合法州——尽管埃姆沙扬·威尔金斯年纪尚轻，无权合法持有枪支。
“你可以把枪放在口袋里、裤子里、屁股里，都没关系，”他说。
这起案件也引发了人们对警署透明度和问责机制的新质疑。
根据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻获得的证词记录，在2026年3月18日一场持续仅一个多小时的取证听证会上，涉嫌开枪的圣路易斯警察侦探布雷特·卡尔森援引第五修正案权利，拒绝回答几乎所有问题。他仅确认了几项基本细节，包括自己收到了传票且由密苏里州总检察长办公室代理律师，但拒绝说明对峙期间发生了什么、少年是否持有枪支，以及是否遵守了警署政策。证词记录显示，卡尔森还拒绝回答关于随身摄像头录像、他的培训经历、违纪记录以及向调查人员所作陈述的相关问题。
在周一公布随身摄像头录像后，圣路易斯都会区警察局表示，“事件发生后立即有第三方向调查人员提供的信息，与实际事件经过以及最初向社区通报的情况并不一致。”
警方称，枪击事件发生后，“内部规程已更新，以便圣路易斯都会区警察局能够更准确、及时地发布信息。现在，警署随身摄像头部门的一名工作人员会直接赶赴现场，以便调查指挥官在对外发布详细通报前先审查录像内容。”
“在本案中，如果能在事件发生后最初时刻就审查随身摄像头录像，本可以比当时掌握的信息提供更清晰的真相，”警方声明称。
对威尔金斯的母亲而言，真相迟迟未明是持续不断的痛苦来源。她说，当局最初告诉她，她的儿子转身举枪指向了警察。
“他们看到的是一部手机，不是枪，”她说，“我真的觉得，他们本该竭尽所能，但在履行职责时，他们没有做到。”
警方后来承认，最初向公众通报的信息与录像证据不符。
这段录像耗时一年多才得以公开。沃特金斯表示，他的团队不得不提起联邦诉讼，才迫使警方公布录像。
“我们为此抗争过，”他说，“现在我们明白他们为什么不想公开这段录像了。”
沙伊娜·威尔金斯表示，她希望警察局“为他们的所作所为承担责任，因为他们知道那是错的……我们花了一整年才拿到随身摄像头录像。我儿子去世已经两年多了，我才拿到尸检和医疗记录。”
圣路易斯巡回检察官办公室表示，他们正在审查这起案件，以确定是否有必要提起刑事指控。涉案警员目前仍在带薪从事内勤工作。
对沙伊娜·威尔金斯而言，正义的定义很明确。
“我希望卡尔森警官进监狱，让全世界都知道你做了什么，”她说，“那不对。”
她还希望人们能了解视频最后几秒之外，她的儿子究竟是怎样的人。
“他不是暴徒，绝对不是，”她说，“他没有任何犯罪前科之类的劣迹。他只是个孩子，你知道的，他可能没做过最明智的决定，但他本该现在还好好活着。”
Mother says she wants justice for 17-year-old son fatally shot by St. Louis police
April 15, 2026 / 10:14 PM EDT / CBS News
By Ash-har Quraishi
Emeshyon Wilkins was, in his mother’s words, “goofy,” a teenager who loved to make people laugh and whose smile could soften even the toughest moments. He liked math, was good with numbers and talked about working, saving money and building a life after high school.
“We kind of grew up together,” his mother, Shaina Wilkins, told CBS News. She said she was just 17 when he was born. He had celebrated his 17th birthday just weeks before he died.
Now, nearly two years after he was shot and killed by a St. Louis police officer, Shaina Wilkins says she is still searching for answers and accountability.
Body camera video released by her attorney this week shows the June 2024 encounter that ended with the 17-year-old being shot in the back of the head as he ran from police. The footage contradicts an earlier police statement that said Wilkins had pointed a gun at officers. The video does not show him holding or pointing a weapon.
Body camera video shows 17-year-old Emeshyon Wilkins being fatally shot by a St. Louis officer on June 18, 2024. KMOV
Police said the encounter began when detectives attempted to stop an SUV that had been reported stolen. After a brief pursuit, the teen ran away. An officer can be heard shouting for him to get on the ground and to drop a gun before the officer began firing. One of the four shots struck Wilkins in the back of the head, killing him.
According to a lawsuit filed by the family, a firearm was later found in Wilkins’ pocket, but it was disassembled and incapable of being fired.
Shaina Wilkins said what she saw in the video was devastating.
“My son won’t… he’s gone, never coming back,” she said. “They just treated him so badly.”
Shaina Wilkins’ attorney, Albert Watkins, told CBS News there is more to the story than what was initially reported, including how Wilkins came to be in the vehicle. Watkins said the teen had saved money from working at McDonald’s and bought the car from someone in the neighborhood, unaware it had been reported stolen.
“He saved his money and he paid for that car, paid the guy in the neighborhood for that car,” Watkins said. “Of course, that part of the story can’t come out because he’s dead.”
Watkins also said the disassembled gun in Emeshyon Wilkins’ pocket shouldn’t have mattered, both because it couldn’t fire and because Missouri is a concealed carry state — although Emeshyon Wilkins was too young to legally carry a firearm.
“You can have a gun in your pocket, in your pants, up your ass, it doesn’t matter,” he said.
The case has also raised new questions about transparency and accountability within the department.
During a March 18, 2026, deposition that lasted just over an hour, St. Louis police Detective Brett Carlson — the officer who allegedly pulled the trigger — pleaded the Fifth and refused to answer nearly all questions, according to a transcript of the deposition obtained by CBS News. He confirmed only basic details, including that he was subpoenaed and represented by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, but declined to address what happened during the encounter, whether the teen had a gun or whether department policies were followed. Carlson also refused to answer questions about body camera footage, his training, disciplinary history and any statements to investigators, according to the deposition transcript.
After the bodycam video was released Monday, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said that “information provided by a third-party to investigators in the immediate aftermath of the incident was not consistent with the actual events or what was initially shared with the community.”
The department said that following the shooting, “internal protocols were updated to better position the SLMPD to provide accurate and timely information. A member of the Department’s body-worn camera unit now responds directly to the scene so that footage can be reviewed by investigating commanders before detailed public accounts are provided.”
“In this case, an earlier review of body-worn camera footage would have provided greater clarity than what was available in the initial moments following the incident,” it said.
For Wilkins’ mother, the lack of answers has been a constant source of pain. She said authorities initially told her that her son had turned and pointed a gun.
“They seen a phone. They didn’t see a gun,” she said. “I really just feel like they, they should have did everything, but that when it came doing their job, they didn’t do their job.”
Police have since acknowledged that early information shared with the public was not consistent with the video evidence.
The video itself took more than a year to obtain. Watkins said his office had to file a federal lawsuit to force its release.
“We had to fight for it,” he said. “Now we see why they did not want it released.”
Shaina Wilkins said she wants the police department to “take accountability for what they did, because they know it was wrong. … It took us a whole year to get the bodycam. It’s been over two years since my son died, and I just got the autopsy and medical records.”
The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office has said it is reviewing the case to determine whether criminal charges are warranted. The officer involved remains on desk duty with pay.
For Shaina Wilkins, justice is straightforward.
“I want officer Carlson to go to jail and let the world know what you did,” she said. “It wasn’t right.”
She also wants people to understand who her son was beyond the final moments captured on video.
“He wasn’t a thug. He wasn’t,” she said. “He didn’t have a bad history of anything like being a criminal or nothing like that. He was a kid, you know, he probably wasn’t making the best decisions, but he should still be here right now.”