Year-old killed, father in critical condition following police shooting in

Few, while attempting to flee, had reportedly driven to a dead end, and was “backing into the marshals when they fired”.

“I can not confirm who actually shot the child”.

The names of the marshals involved have not yet been released.

On Tuesday night, Louisiana police shot and killed 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis after opening fire on the fleeing vehicle he was riding in, AP reports.

Blaine Dauzat, the Avoyelles School District’s superintendent, told Avoyelles Today grief counselors were sent to the school Wednesday to assist students and school employees.

If Mardis was shot by police, he would be the youngest person killed by police gunfire this year, according to The Counted, the Guardian’s ongoing project to track killings by law enforcement in 2015. Few then put his vehicle in reverse and struck the police vehicle, the news site reports. He identified the child as Jeremy David Mardis and said he was sitting in the right front passenger seat at the time of the shooting. Both, Mardis and the father are white. Mardis was a first grader at Lafarue Elementary School in Effie, Louisiana. Few is in critical but stable condition.

According to the site, Marksville Police Chief Elster Smith will meet with the city attorney to decide if action should be taken against the officers involved. The officers could be placed on leave until the investigation by State Police is complete. The shooting happened at about 9:30 p.m.at the end of the chase. He is believed to have been running from police trying to serve a warrant.

Chris Few, the boy’s father, was also shot by police. The officers got out of their unit an allegedly starting shooting with their police issued firearms (pistols) through the driver’s window striking but Mardis and Few. He was killed by multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso, Avoyelles Parish coroner Dr LJ Mayeuxsaid.