Mississippi Officer Resigns After Killing Toddler in Justified Shooting

Hunter Foster, the Mississippi police officer who fatally shot one-year-old Kohen Wiley during a shoplifting call at a Walmart, has resigned from the Senatobia police department. The resignation was accepted by the Senatobia board of aldermen on October 21st and became effective immediately. Foster had been on leave since June 16th, following the June 14th incident where he fired into a vehicle, resulting in the toddler's death.

This development follows Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch's announcement earlier this week that the shooting was deemed "justified." The Mississippi Department of Public Safety recently released body-camera and surveillance footage from the incident, which occurred at a Senatobia Walmart and showed the child dying in his mother's arms.