Sergeant Hunter Foster of the Senatobia Police Department has been named in public records and independently confirmed by FOX13 Memphis as the officer involved in the fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Kartier Wiley on 14 June 2026. The toddler was killed when an officer fired into a silver sedan in the car park of a Walmart on US Highway 51 in Senatobia, Mississippi, during a response to a shoplifting call. A family friend travelling in the same vehicle was critically injured.
Community advocate Marquell Bridges alleged in a Facebook post — a claim IBTimes UK has not been able to independently verify and which no official agency has confirmed or denied — that Foster had a complaint filed against him by a fellow officer for using racial slurs inside the police precinct just days before the shooting. Bridges has not provided documentation of the complaint, and it does not appear in any public record reviewed by IBTimes UK.
