Greenhouse is now being held on a $1 million bond in the Rapides Parish jail – moved there for his safety.
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Police now admit that Few was not only unarmed when officers opened fire, there wasn’t a warrant at all.
Louisiana State Police announced late Friday that they had arrested the two marshals in Tuesday’s shooting, which raised questions from the start. The city was not sure the marshal had the power to write tickets.
Spruill said he granted the motion “to promote impartial administration of justice”.
Investigators have not suggested that race is a factor in the shooting, which may not fit neatly into a national debate about race and policing. ‘It makes no sense to me’.
The shooting incident itself was “devastating and traumatic”, and because his department has a connection, he said, “I have to live with it also”. Edmonson, however, said there was no evidence a warrant was issued. Dixon said Few had encountered one of the marshals previously and was uncomfortable with facing him again.
The bond hearing was closed to the public, so the justification for the size of the bond is unknown, but the size of the bond – as well as the few statements investigators have made on the case so far – give an indication of how serious the situation is for the two officers.
The officers, 32-year-old Derrick Stafford of Mansura and 23-year-old Derrick Greenhouse Jr., of Marksville each is charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.
Norris Greenhouse Jr., the other officer implicated in the murder of 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis, is named in several of the same suits for acting in tandem with Stafford. He (Jeremy) didn’t deserve to die like that.
Louisiana State Police Superintendent, Col. Mike Edmonson told reporters during a press conference last Friday that the body cam footage “is partly why we’re here tonight with these charges”. “This is a good community with good people, and this kind of mess doesn’t go on”, Avoyelles Parish Sheriff Doug Anderson said.
Derrick Stafford has had problems with the law in the past. It is not clear what the outcomes of these cases were. However, the case was dropped in May 2012-the same year that Stafford allegedly broke a 15-year-old girl’s arm when breaking up a fight. It’s still unclear what led police to pursue Few and what triggered the shooting. Few’s fiancee Megan Dixon told the Guardian she had argued with Few before he left to pick up Mardis from a relative’s house.
Both Few and his son were shot.
“It was Norris Greenhouse in the US Marshal vehicle”. Couvillion said he was one of her favorite students. She did not identify which marshal.
‘And I know what happened’. His stepfather, Morris German, said last week that Few had bullet fragments in his brain and lung.
Family and friends of a 6-year-old autistic boy killed when marshals in a Louisiana town opened fire on a vehicle are gathering for the boy’s funeral.
Mr German added that the six-year-old had been diagnosed with autism, describing him as a delightful child who “loved everything, everybody”.
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The two were among four officers at the scene of the shooting.
