New Video Shows Chaotic Moments Before Police Shot 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley

The body-camera and surveillance footage provides the first glimpse of a confrontation in a Walmart parking lot that left 1-year-old Kohen Wiley dead.

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New Video Shows Chaotic Moments Before Police Shot 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley

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The Mississippi attorney general announced the police officer will not be charged in connection with the killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.

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Sgt. Hunter Foster has resigned from the Senatobia Police Department after Mississippi's attorney general ruled the fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley was justified and declined to bring criminal charges; body-camera and surveillance footage of the June Walmart parking-lot confrontation has been released.

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In this event Police officer who shot and killed 1-year-old resigns Earlier coverage Mississippi releases video of 1-year-old’s fatal police shooting Earlier coverage Mississippi attorney general says officer's force was justified in death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley Earlier coverage

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NYT Published 21 October 2026

New Video Shows Chaotic Moments Before Police Shot 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley

CBS Published 21 October 2026

Video shows moments leading up to police fatally shooting toddler

The Mississippi attorney general announced the police officer will not be charged in connection with the killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.

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