Funeral Monday for 6-year-old killed in Louisiana shooting

Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse were arrested Friday, Louisiana State Police Col. Micheal Edmonson said during a news conference. The shooting occurred on a dead end street in town, and the boy is reported to have been hit by five bullets in the head and chest while the officers chased his father’s auto. Both were working in the capacity of their second jobs as city marshals at the time of the shootings. “Let’s make tonight about Jeremy Mardis”.

The first grader was buckled in the front passenger seat when he was shot Tuesday.

Marksville Police officers and Ward 2 City Marshal Deputies Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse are now accused of shooting and killing a six year old boy, and critically wounding his father after a vehicle chase.

He also said that while Few’s condition is improving, he has not yet been told that his son died at the scene. The case is “not good for any of us”, Riddle said.

State police said Stafford is a full-time lieutenant with the Marksville Police Department; Greenhouse is a full-time city marshal. The attorney general’s office is taking over the prosecution.

Stafford and Greenhouse are being held at the Avoyelles Parish Detention Center.

A judge is expected to meet with them there Monday morning for a hearing related to their bond.

Ian Fridge, who filed the lawsuit, said that after he arrived at the event with a firearm, which he believed he was allowed to publicly display, the officers Tasered him and charged him with resisting arrest, battery on an officer and other crimes – despite his being “completely compliant”, the lawsuit says.

Family and friends are set to say goodbye to a 6-year-old autistic child who was killed during a police pursuit in Louisiana that left his father seriously wounded.

Funeral services for Jeremy Mardis are scheduled Monday afternoon at Moore Funeral Chapel at Moore Funeral Services in Hattiesburg, followed by burial in Beaumont Cemetery. He had recently moved from Hattiesburg to Louisiana.

Officials say it is unclear as to why the officers opened fire on the auto, as the father was not armed and there was no record of an arrest warrant issued for the man. While initial reports claimed that the marshals were trying to serve Few with a warrant, his fiancee Megan Dixon says she saw the police cruisers approach Few’s auto with their lights flashing – and seemingly for no particular reason.