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The Mississippi attorney general's office had determined that the use of force was justified in the deadly shooting that stemmed from an alleged shoplifting incident.
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Kohen Wiley fatal police shooting
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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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CBS
Police officer who shot and killed 1-year-old resigns
The Mississippi attorney general's office had determined that the use of force was justified in the deadly shooting that stemmed from an alleged shoplifting incident.
ABC News
Mississippi officer who fatally shot 1-year-old resigns
PBS
Police officer who shot and killed 1-year-old boy in Mississippi has resigned, mayor says
Sgt. Hunter Foster, 33, had been cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the Mississippi Attorney General's office earlier this week after its monthslong probe concluded his use of force had been justified.
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Officer who shot and killed Black toddler in Mississippi resigns from police force
Hunter Foster fired at vehicle during a shoplifting call at a Walmart, killing one-year-old Kohen Wiley Hunter Foster, the Mississippi police officer who shot into a vehicle and killed one-year-old Kohen Wiley, has resigned from the Senatobia police department. Earlier this week, Mississippi’s attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced that the shooting was “justified”. The Senatobia board of aldermen accepted Foster’s…
