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Posted on 10/23/2026 1:29:35 PM PDT by Morgana
SENATOBIA, MS. (WMC) - The Senatobia police officer who shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in a Walmart parking lot in June has resigned from the force, attorneys for the Wiley family told Action News 5.
Officer Hunter Foster’s body camera footage, just released by the Mississippi Department of Pubic Safety, shows him running out of the store with other officers after a Walmart employee told him accused shoplifters were on the run. Within 13 seconds, Foster’s gun was aimed at the car with Wiley inside it. What the video shows
Body camera audio captures officers shouting “Stop the car. Stop. Stop.” as gunfire is heard along with breaking glass and screeching brakes. The car continued moving.
Three shots were fired, all from Foster’s weapon. The shots hit and injured the driver and hit and killed Wiley, who was in his mother’s arms in the front passenger seat.
Kohen Wiley’s grandmother, LaSandra Williams, said she has seen the video.
“I’m having a difficult time understanding the word justified. I just don’t understand,” Williams said. Attorneys respond
Williams, her family and their attorneys have reviewed the footage. Attorney Ben Crump addressed the shooting at a news conference on Thursday.
“America, our society must have more empathy for human life,” Crump said.
The family’s legal team said Foster has resigned from the Senatobia Police Department. Crump said he wants Foster decertified.
The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office ruled the shooting justified based on the investigation conducted by the Department of Public Safety. Attorney Van Turner said the fight for justice for Kohen Wiley is not over.
“We’re going to petition the Department of Justice to open an investigation to make sure that we get justice for this baby. It just won’t end here. We have to take it all the way to the top,” Turner said. State investigation findings
The state’s investigation found the driver drove into the officers, and the video supports that finding. Several officers drew their guns, but only one officer, Foster, opened fire.
“The bullet that killed Kohen Wiley,” said Crump, “was not justified. This decision sends a message that a Black baby boy, his life, is not as valuable as the white diapers that he is wrapped in.”
Kohen Wiley’s mother said she held her baby up in the air to show officers a child was in the car.
Action News 5 slowed multiple body cam videos down to see if it was easy to spot her and her child in the front seat, but it was not, especially given how quickly the incident escalated.
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Mom was stealing, using the baby as a human shield and running over a cop while running from a cop. It's her fault.
I wish this man well in life and so sorry the police 🚓 force lost him. Sir I hope you read this too. You are an excellent cop.
I agree. Lock up the parents who brought a baby along for a criminal act.
This seems like it should be a death by the mother, but was lethal force legit for this, while the subject was driving away?
I have not seen the video, but based on what has been reported - and especially based on Crump’s denial of the facts - I believe the shooting was justified.
That said - A good man shot and killed a baby. It wasn’t his fault, but there is trauma in that. PTSD.
I hope he finds peace.
That little fact was buried deeper than Jimmy Hoffa. If you're going to bring your child to an attempted murder, you should invest in a kevlar onesie.
Several criminal acts. If the baby had been in a car seat, in the back, and not on Mom’s lap chances are no bullets would have hit him. She was in such a hurry she didn’t strap him in his car seat think of that. Then they drove like a bat 🦇 out of hell. What if they had crashed?
But it’s never their fault.
Prayers 🙏 for that officer.
Driving into the cops is not driving away.
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Yes. Courts have ruled for decades that police are justified in shooting at criminals in this fashion.
SUPPORT THIS OFFICER 10,000 %.
Can you justifiably shoot a “fleeing felon”? in that jurisdiction? Why didnt he quit when it happened?
“Mom was stealing, using the baby as a human shield and running over a cop while running from a cop.”
Yep and the media is trying to blwck that part out and this article is a prime example.
How many times she do this same thing before and get away with it hiding behind her kid?
Guarantee you this ain’t her first rodeo doing this....
Don’t know if the box of diapers was shoplifted or not but another unqualified cop’s overly excited actions shot and killed a 1 year old that shouldn’t have died.
Driver attempted to run over the officer who fired the shots. Ugly. Justified. Horrible for all concerned.
“Driving into the cops is not driving away.”
That’s right.
The black community screamed for police body cams and they got ‘em.
That one has backfired on them mightily.
If I am a cop, I’m not chasing a shoplifter. Get the plate number and call it a day. You don’t want to risk getting “runnded over” or killing a child.
The driver drove at and struck the office with a moving vehicle, right? That’s what I saw. Did everyone else see the same thing? That poor kid. The officer was firing in self defense. Not the kid’s fault. Not the officer’s fault. The people at fault were the other two people in the assault vehicle.
Responding to the comment from her money-grubbing attorney, the mother was the one who decided her son’s life was worth less than the price of a box of diapers. She, and not the officer, is responsible for her son’s tragic death.
She used her vehicle as a weapon and attempted to hit the cops.
No different than pulling a knife or gun....a weapon is a weapon.
You don’t “drive away” directly into and hitting a police officer. Stop using BS liberal-speak.
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