State police say there were no outstanding warrants for the arrest of the boy’s father, Chris Few, who also was shot. Both were working part time as deputy marshals in Marksville on Tuesday when they allegedly opened fire.
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Jeremy Mardis will be laid to rest in Hattiesburg, MS, on the same day. His 6-year-old, Jeremy Mardis, was strapped into his seatbelt in the front passenger seat.
Officers Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, and Derrick Stafford, 32, have been arrested and face charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.
The father, Chris Few, was critically injured and was treated for a gunshot wound to the head. The father, Christopher Few, and his son were shot and the father is in critical condition. The damage to the police auto was apparently very minor, and Edmonson said, “It doesn’t seem from what we see because we don’t know why they were trying to chase him”.
“I’ve been a police officer for 35 years, but as a father-much less as a state police-it was a disturbing, disturbing video that I watched”, Edmonson said, “and that really helped move us forward”.
Greenhouse is listed as a full-time police lieutenant for the Marksville Police Department and Stafford is listed as a marshal in Alexandria.
Two Louisiana law enforcement officers remained jailed Saturday while their colleagues tried to sort out the details that led to the death of a 6-year-old and the severe wounding of his father in a hail of gunfire.
The state attorney general’s officer will take over the prosecution. He loved everyone he met and they loved him. They were being held in the Avoyelles Parish jail. “Because the public, the public allows us to wear that”.
Family and friends of a 6-year-old boy killed when marshals in a Louisiana town opened fire on a vehicle were gathering for the boy’s funeral service Monday afternoon.
Jeremy Mardis was fatally wounded Tuesday night when officers fired into a vehicle driven by his father.
“We’ve got to find out what caused those officers to effect that pursuit, to effect that traffic stop, and what caused them to fire their weapons”, Col. Michael Edmonson, the state police superintendent, told NBC News.
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Louisiana state police late Friday arrested two marshals in the case. The parish coroner said earlier this week that the officers were serving a warrant on Few when he fled, but Edmonson later said he had no information about a warrant.
