Cannon Hinnant

US child shooting victim

Cannon Blake Hinnant was a five-year-old American boy from Wilson, North Carolina who was shot and killed on August 9, 2020, while playing in his neighbor's yard.

Hinnant's neighbor, Darius Sessoms, was arrested for the shooting within 24 hours.Some conservative media outlets claimed that his death was intentionally under-reported due to his race, as Hinnant was white, while Sessoms is black.

According to Snopes, the incident was widely reported, and there was no evidence of a cover-up.Hinnant's family has said the child's death was not race related.