# Video complicates Mississippi’s police shooting account

> Mississippi police officer’s justified shooting of toddler contradicted by video showing side shots.
- Title: Video complicates Mississippi’s police shooting account
- Summary: Mississippi police officer’s justified shooting of toddler contradicted by video showing side shots. Mississippi’s attorney general said police shooting of…
- Keywords: police shooting, police officers, mississippi, police violence, kohen wiley, hunter foster, senatobia police department, mississippi attorney general, lynn fitch, vellesiya wiley, latoya ferrell, news
- Source: Straight Arrow — https://san.com/cc/video-complicates-mississippis-account-of-police-shooting-that-killed-toddler
- Published: 2026-10-21T21:48:53+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: police shooting, police officers, mississippi, police violence, kohen wiley, hunter foster, senatobia police department, mississippi attorney general, lynn fitch, vellesiya wiley, latoya ferrell, news
## Mississippi attorney general says shooting justified
Mississippi’s attorney general declared the police officer who killed a 1-year-old in June used force justified.

> The officer’s use of force was justified
## Video shows officer firing from side of car
Video released by Darkhorse Press shows officer firing three more shots after car passed him.

> The officer appears to then fire three more times while standing to its side
## Family’s independent autopsy reveals side impact
Kohen Wiley was struck from the side per independent autopsy, with mother holding him in front passenger seat.

> Kohen Wiley was struck from the side
## Family denies friend tried to hit officers
Vellesiya Wiley denied Latoya Ferrell tried to hit officers, saying they were all on the right side.

> They was all on the right side, and she was driving towards the left
## Officer previously accused of exaggerating threat
Hunter Foster previously falsely reported a car nearly ran over another officer in 2021.

> Foster falsely reported that a driver in a Waffle House parking lot nearly ran over another officer
## Officer on administrative leave
Hunter Foster has been on administrative leave since two days after the shooting.

> Foster has been on administrative leave since two days after the shooting
## Police chief fired over racist texts
Police chief Harold Vanderford was fired after reports revealed he used racist slurs in private texts.

> Vanderford was fired last month after reports revealed he routinely used racist slurs in private texts
## Attorney general’s office found 85 justified shootings
Mississippi attorney general said her office found force justified in all but four of 86 officer-involved shootings.

> Fitch said in September that the attorney general’s office had found force justified in all but four of the 86 officer-involved shootings
## No charges filed for women involved
Neither woman involved has been charged despite shoplifting accusation that initiated the stop.

> Officers confronted the women over a reported shoplifting, but neither has been charged
## Family scheduled to view full footage
Kohen Wiley’s family is scheduled to view full footage Thursday including five body cameras and Walmart surveillance.

> Kohen Wiley’s family is scheduled to view the full footage Thursday
## State delays public release of footage
Mississippi Department of Public Safety will fulfill public records requests only after family views footage.

> DPS told Straight Arrow it will fulfill public records requests for the footage after the family has seen it
## NAACP Legal Defense Fund condemns decision
NAACP Legal Defense Fund says Kohen Wiley’s family and community deserve answers.

> Kohen Wiley’s family and community ‘deserve answers’
## Key takeaway

Mississippi’s attorney general said police shooting of 1-year-old was justified, but video shows officer firing from side after car passed.