Mississippi police officer who shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley resigns after being cleared by state

Updated on: October 23, 2026 / 2:30 PM EDT / CBS News

A Mississippi police officer who shot into a moving car and killed a 1-year-old boy outside a Walmart in June has resigned, the mayor of Senatobia confirmed to CBS News on Friday.

Mayor Greg Graves confirmed that Hunter Foster resigned.

Foster's resignation comes after the Mississippi attorney general's office announced Monday that the use of force was justified in the June shooting that stemmed from a response to an alleged shoplifting incident.

Officers and Tate County sheriff's deputies responding to the incident were already at the Walmart for an unrelated call. They approached a moving car in the parking lot and yelled for it to stop. When the car didn't stop, Foster opened fire on the car.

Body camera footage from the incident shows the car back up and hit a parked car as the law enforcement officers converged on the vehicle with their guns drawn.

When the car moves forward, Foster is seen moving out of the way as he puts one hand down on the hood as gunshots from his weapon ring out. The front passenger window of the car then shatters, and the car drives…

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