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Mississippi officer who fatally shot toddler resigns

Sgt. Hunter Foster, the Senatobia, Mississippi police officer who shot and killed one-year-old Kohen Wiley during a shoplifting call at a Walmart, has resigned, the mayor said. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch's office had earlier cleared Foster of criminal wrongdoing, concluding his use of force was justified.

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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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Sgt. Hunter Foster has resigned from the Senatobia Police Department after Mississippi's attorney general ruled his 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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Sgt. Hunter Foster has resigned from the Senatobia Police Department after Mississippi's attorney general ruled his fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley was justified and declined to charge him.

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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.

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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…

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