Mississippi police officer who fatally shot 1-year-old Kohen Wiley has resigned

Key Points:

• Hunter Foster, the Mississippi police officer who fatally shot 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, has resigned from the Senatobia Police Department shortly after the shooting was deemed a "justified" use of force by the state Attorney General's office.
• Foster's lawyer stated that Foster resigned to aid the healing process and denies knowing a child was in the vehicle or that those fleeing were suspected of shoplifting, claiming they were investigating an unrelated case of an attempted sexual assault.
• The shooting occurred on June 14 after officers responded to a Walmart shoplifting report and attempted to stop a vehicle with two women and a child fleeing; Kohen was pronounced dead at a hospital, and another occupant was critically injured.
• Kohen’s mother disputes police accounts, saying they were at Walmart for diapers, and that she raised her baby to show officers he was in the car as the vehicle backed out and accidentally hit another car.
• Body camera footage released by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety shows officers approaching the vehicle with guns drawn, the car reversing and crashing, then accelerating forward as an officer fires through the passenger window before the vehicle flees the scene.