Mississippi Child Shot

Mississippi’s attorney general says a Senatobia officer was justified in using force when he responded to a shoplifting call and fired at a moving vehicle that investigators said was driving toward police, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, who was in the car. The shooting occurred as Senatobia officers responded to a call at a Walmart. Officers saw Kohen's mother carrying her son as she and a friend left the store, got into a car and began driving away. In a statement released after the shooting, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said the vehicle drove toward law enforcement, at which point an officer opened fire. Kohen’s mother disputes that claim.

Mississippi authorities released video Thursday showing the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old b…

The police officer who shot and killed a 1-year-old boy in Mississippi when he fired into a moving vehicle while responding to a shoplifting call has resigned. That's according to Senatobia Mayor Greg Graves, who confirmed Friday that Sgt. Hunter Foster was no longer with the city's police force. Foster's attorney Martin Zummach declined to comment. He has said Foster had “no choice” but to shoot at the vehicle because it was moving toward him. Kohen's family says the shooting was not justified. The Mississippi Attorney General's office cleared Foster of criminal wrongdoing earlier this week following a monthslong probe into the June incident outside a Walmart parking lot. The state released Foster's body-worn camera footage of the fatal encounter Thursday.