Mississippi releases footage of fatal shooting of Kohen Wiley

Mississippi released footage of the fatal shooting of one-year-old Kohen Wiley after Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office concluded its review and declined to prosecute Senatobia police officer Hunter Foster. The state said it found insufficient evidence of criminal conduct to present the case to a grand jury and determined the use of force was justified. The encounter occurred June 14 in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, where officers were responding to a report of suspected shoplifting. Video from officers’ body cameras and store surveillance shows the car reversing into a parked vehicle as officers ordered the driver to stop, then moving forward. Foster, positioned near the front passenger side, fired into the vehicle. Wiley, who was on his mother’s lap in the passenger seat, was fatally shot. The driver, Latoya Ferrell, was critically injured. In footage recorded after the shooting, Foster said he had not seen the child in the car. Another officer replied that nobody knew the baby was there. The released recordings include body-camera footage from multiple officers, but do not include Foster’s own camera recording, according to reporting on the video. The state’s...