Mississippi Officer Who Killed Toddler Resigns After State Says Shooting Was Justified

UPDATE - follow-up to Police officer resigns after shooting that killed 1-year-old: Hunter Foster, the officer who shot a moving car and killed 1‑year‑old Kohen Wiley outside a Senatobia Walmart, has resigned, mayor Greg Graves said. Foster quit after the Mississippi attorney general’s office announced on Monday that the use of force was justified in the June shooting that began with an alleged shop‑lifting call. Officers and Tate County sheriff’s deputies were already at the store for an unrelated call, ordered the car to stop, and opened fire when it kept moving. Body‑camera video shows the car backing into a parked vehicle, then moving forward as Foster steps aside, places a hand on the hood and fires, shattering the front passenger window. The child inside the car died from the shots. Martin Zummach, Foster’s lawyer, argued his client had no choice because the vehicle was coming at him and blamed the driver, who has not been charged, for trying to kill the officers. Civil‑rights lawyer Ben Crump, representing the family, urged the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation, saying accountability cannot end with the resignation. ## Context The resignation comes weeks after the state’s top law‑enforcement official cleared the shooting, a decision that has drawn criticism from civil‑rights groups and renewed calls for federal review.