So Louisiana pigs are out here gunning down little 6yr old kids w/ autism now...
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http://theadvocate.com/news/acadiana/13886147-125/state-police-6-year-old-shot-killed
http://klfy.com/2015/11/04/6-year-old-killed-following-officer-involved-shooting-in-marksville/
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http://klfy.com/2015/11/04/6-year-old-killed-following-officer-involved-shooting-in-marksville/
Child shot multiple times in head, killed; driver critically injured after marshal-involved shooting Tuesday night in Marksville
Updated, 11:35 a.m.: A six-year-old boy was fatally wounded and his father was listed in critical condition after a chase with deputy city marshals in Marksville ended in a shooting on Tuesday night, Louisiana State Police said.
The boy, Jeremy David Mardis, of Effie, was killed by multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene, Avoyelles Parish Coroner L.J. Mayeaux said Wednesday. The boy was a student at Lafargue Elementary in Effie.
Mayeaux said the boy was in the vehicle when he was shot and it appears all the shots came from outside and through the driver's side of the vehicle. He said the investigation is ongoing, but the "working theory" is that all shots were fired by city marshals.
The shooting on Martin Luther King Drive in Marksville happened at the end of a pursuit and involved multiple city marshals from Ward 2, Louisiana State Police spokesman Trooper Daniel “Scott” Moreau said.
According to The Town Talk in Alexandria, the driver tried to run his car into a police vehicle
“The Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations/Alexandria Field Office responded to the scene at the request of the Marksville Police Department to investigate the incident/shooting,” Moreau said.
Chris Few, the boy’s father, was taken to Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria where he’s listed in stable condition, Mayeaux said.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
6-year-old killed following officer-involved shooting in Marksville
MARKSVILLE, La. (KALB) – Louisiana State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in Marksville on Martin Luther King Drive.
According to State Police, City Marshals from the Ward 2 office were in pursuit of a vehicle. KALB was told that City Marshals fired their weapons at the vehicle at the conclusion of the pursuit.
State Police confirmed that the driver of the vehicle, who has not been identified, is in critical condition.
His passenger was identified as 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis by Avoyelles Parish coroner Dr. L. J. Mayeux. The boy was pronounced dead.
Mardis was a first grader at Lafargue Elementary. Dr. Mayeux said the man, identified as Chris Few, is in critical condition and is the boy’s father.
State Police have not identified the officers involved in the shooting.
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As usual they don't assess the risk and what was the father even shooting back?!!! I highly doubt it.
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I don't have all the details nor does this article give them, but it would seem as though they would try to disable the car with spike strips or run dude off the road using their cruisers as opposed to emptying their firearm clips into his car without knowing the full situation.
I do not think they intended to ? this child or do I think they would have shot in the car had they known a child was there although it's disgusting and a lack of judgement on law enforcements part and it is despicable this child died like this. -
The father shouldn't have put his child in that situation. He's a sorry ass ? but the pigs need to be fired without pay & prosecuted for shooting at another black man not shooting back.
That's not what whitey is going to say though. Its going to be....
"Sad for the child but it's ok because they didnt know. They should be warned and put on paid leave."
In this situation, the child is a hostage. A police officer's job is to make sure no innocent bystanders are harmed. They're supposed to verify that no hostages are present b4 they start shooting recklessly.
They keep getting a pass for unprofessional, reckless behavior.
"Mistakes" that cause ppl their lives with no repercussions. -
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Reminds me of a mother and son who was taken hostage in Jacksonville by a car jacker...cops opened fire on all of'em
No such thing as a black hostage
These are the descendants of the same people who used black babies as gator bait here in GA and FL, fed Indian babies to hungry dogs and buried aboriginal babies in sand up to their necks and kicked their heads off.
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/04/six-year-old-boy-louisiana-possibly-killed-by-policeSix-year-old boy in Louisiana possibly killed by police ‘in the line of fire’
A six-year-old boy in Louisiana was killed Tuesday when he was “caught in the line of fire” after police who were pursuing his father began shooting, according to the local coroner.
City marshals in Marksville, Louisiana shot at the car driven by Chris Few while his son, Jeremy Mardis, was in the vehicle, the coroner told the Associated Press. Mardis was pronounced dead at the scene. He was killed by multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso, Avoyelles Parish coroner Dr LJ Mayeuxsaid. Few is in critical but stable condition.
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.
Law enforcement officials have not confirmed that the child was killed by police gunfire. The officers involved in the shooting were city marshals from Ward 2 of Avoyelles Parish, which encompasses Marksville. Louisiana State Police are investigating the shooting at the request of the Marksville Police Department. A spokesman for the agency, Trooper Daniel “Scott” Moreau, said it was unclear what precipitated the shooting and that it is unknown whether Few was armed.
“I cannot confirm who actually shot the child. I can’t confirm whether it was bullets from the officers’ guns or if the driver had a gun and it was a shot from him,” Moreau said. He added that he was “not aware” that any gun had been recovered in Few’s possession or in his car.
Moreau said his agency had only received a “very brief synopsis” of the shooting and hadn’t yet conducted “in-depth” interviews with the officers involved.
“In the very near future, we will sit down with the officers and conduct formal interviews,” Moreau said Wednesday.
Louisiana State Police will turn over the results of the investigation to the local prosecutor, he said.
Representatives from the Marksville Police Department and Avoyelles Parish were unable to be reached for comment.
Pig logic.. "Well we didn't recover any gun from the car.. but we aren't sure who shot the child.. The father could've still somehow done it".. Smdh.. -
why was the cops shooting, if no gun was ever recovered from the vehicle?
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But...but...but what about chicago?
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Not surprised......
Seen them ? 7yr olds and walk right out of courts like nothing happened and throw smoke/flash grenades in toddlers cribs and try to brush that off too. RIP to that lost ones so young... -
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/autistic-6-year-old-shot-killed-during-police-pursuit-in-louisiana-report-says/Autistic 6-year-old shot, killed during police pursuit in Louisiana, report says
MARKSVILLE, La. -- A 6-year-old boy was killed and his father critically wounded after marshals for a central Louisiana city fired at their vehicle as the father was trying to flee, officials said. The boy's grandmother said he was autistic, CBS affiliate WAFB reported.
The two were shot about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in Marksville, La. Avoyelles Parish Coroner L. J. Mayeux identified the driver as Chris Few and his son as Jeremy Mardis, a first-grader at a nearby elementary school.
The coroner said Mardis died from multiple gunshot wounds to his head and chest. Few was listed in serious condition Wednesday morning, according to hospital officials.
Mayeux said city marshals were chasing Few after he fled an attempt to serve a warrant. The coroner said Few reached a dead end and was backing into the marshals when they fired.
The coroner said the boy was "caught in the line of fire" and was killed.
"More likely than not they were shooting into the driver side, and he was on the passenger side," Mayeux said.
Few's grandmother called the boy "a special gift from ? " in a statement to WAFB.
"He was diagnosed with autism when he was 2. He loved everyone he met and they loved him," Samantha Few said in the statement. "As far as what caused his death, the only thing I have been told is he died from gun shot wounds. He didn't deserve what happened. He wouldn't hurt a fly."
It was not immediately clear what type of warrant the marshals were trying to serve.
The city marshals work for the city courts and serve warrants, carry firearms and have police powers, according to the mayor's office.
State police are handling the investigation, but they provided few details.
Blaine Dauzat, the Avoyelles superintendent of schools, said Mardis moved to the school district from Mississippi at the end of his kindergarten year last April.
"We are definitely all shaken up," he said. "It's been a tough day at work for all of us."
Dauzat said grief counselors were sent to Mardis' school, the Lafargue Elementary School in Effie, a community north of Marksville.
Dauzat said Mardis had no siblings in the school system.
Mayeux said Mardis was living with his father and grandmother in Marksville.
Those pigs killed a 6yo child w/ autism... -
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White people don't care about this because they don't realize Jeremy Mardis is white.
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His father didn't shoot him...wtf?
The allLivesMatter crew stays silent. Only time AllLivesMatter is when they are attempting to silence BLM
Fighting police brutality is not a black vs blue issue (BLM acknowledges it happens to everyone just one demographic a whole lot more) but white america thinks it is.
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I ain't gonna lieI, the daddy gets a lot of bit of blame for this
He should have just pulled over with that child
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damn, i think i was in Marksville this past summer
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ok should i feel bad that i looked at a pic of the lil boy and felt a bit of relief since they white. i mean its ? up and all but y'all they would be quick to say o well a lil black boy dead...one less future thug.
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Another day another innocent body caught by a cop. This country is a disgrace!
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/us/louisiana-police-shooting-marksville.html?_r=0Louisiana Officials Investigating Shooting Death of Boy, 6, in Police Chase
It started as a police car chase in a town in central Louisiana. By the time the pursuit ended, on a dark, dead-end street, a 6-year old boy lay fatally shot in the front seat of a sport utility vehicle.
The Louisiana State Police said Thursday that they were investigating the death of the boy, Jeremy Mardis, a first grader, in Marksville on Tuesday night. In the last minutes of the boy’s life, he was with his father, Chris Few, who was at the wheel of his S.U.V., apparently trying to elude city marshals who had a warrant for his arrest.
The state police said in a statement that the marshals opened fire on the S.U.V. at the end of the pursuit, about 9:30 p.m. “The driver of the fleeing vehicle is in critical condition and a 6-year-old passenger has been pronounced dead,” the statement said. A state police spokesman, Scott Moreau, would not name the driver or the passenger, and declined to confirm or discuss other details of the shooting.
One of the first people called to the scene of the shooting was Dr. L.J. Mayeux, the coroner of Avoyelles Parish. In a telephone interview, he said Chris Few had been in the vehicle with Jeremy.
Dr. Mayeux said he arrived at the scene at 10:45 p.m., and that the street was so dark he had to use a small lamp mounted to the bill of his cap to examine the S.U.V. Mr. Few had already been taken to the hospital, Dr. Mayeux said, but the child was still in the vehicle, his body upright, and uncovered, in his seat, without a seatbelt.
Dr. Mayeux said he examined what appeared to be multiple bullet holes in the vehicle.
He said he spoke to some of the marshals, who told him that a warrant was out for Mr. Few’s arrest and that he appeared to have tried to back into the officers’ vehicles when he reached the dead-end. ”
The coroner said the boy was struck several times in the head and chest. An autopsy was performed Wednesday but a final report will not be ready for eight weeks.
Mr. Moreau, the police spokesman, said it was too soon to know who shot the boy. “We cannot say 100 percent that it is the bullets from their guns that hit the child until we do the ballistics tests,” he said, referring to the marshals.
It was not immediately clear what type of warrant the marshals were trying to serve.
Investigators from the Louisiana State Police were expected to interview the marshals involved on Thursday, or possibly Friday, Mr. Moreau said.
Marksville, a city of about 5,500, is north of Lafayette, near the Mississippi border.
“This is a sensitive case and we are going to take our time,” Mr. Moreau said.
“We have not had a chance to interview the officers in depth; the only thing we were able to do was get a public safety statement from them,” Mr. Moreau said. He said the other priority in the immediate aftermath of the shooting had been to preserve evidence at the scene.
Mr. Few was in critical condition at a hospital in nearby Alexandria, La., on Thursday, a hospital official said.
WAFB in Louisiana reported that the child was autistic.
“Jeremy was a special gift from ? ,” it quoted Jeremy’s grandmother, who was not identified, as saying. “He was always smiling, always happy. He was diagnosed with autism when he was 2. He loved everyone he met and they loved him. As far as what caused his death, the only thing I have been told is he died from gunshot wounds. He didn’t deserve what happened. He wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
On his Facebook page, Mr. Few has photos of himself with his son. “Every moment is precious,” he wrote. “Daddy isn’t always around, but better believe he always loves you boy.” -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/11/05/jeremy-was-a-special-gift-from-? -louisiana-6-year-old-is-years-youngest-police-shooting-victim/Jeremy was a special gift from ? ': Louisiana 6-year-old is year’s youngest police shooting victim
As of Thursday morning, at least 834 people had been shot and killed by American police officers so far this year.
Six-year-old Jeremy David Mardis is the youngest among them.
The autistic first-grader was sitting in the front passenger seat of a car being driven by his father, Chris Few, in Marksville, La., when city marshals attempted to serve the man a warrant about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night. Few fled, eventually turning down a dead-end street.
Police say Few then attempted to back his vehicle out, striking officers’ cruisers, prompting a hail of gunfire that left him hospitalized.
An official briefed on the shooting said that Few was unarmed when two officers opened fire, shooting between 13 and 18 bullets combined. That official said it is unclear if the shooting was captured on camera.
“Days like these I wish I was a plumber,” said L. J. Mayeux, the Avoyelles Parish coroner. “These last two days have been bad, and it’s getting worse.”
Five of the officers’ bullets pierced Jeremy’s body, Mayeux said, with the two fatal shots hitting him in the head and chest.
“Jeremy was a special gift from ? . He was always smiling, always happy,” the slain child’s grandmother, Samantha Few, told a local television station. “He was diagnosed with autism when he was 2. He loved everyone he met and they loved him. … He didn’t deserve what happened.”
There have been at least 85 fatal on-duty police shootings this year that began with officers attempting to serve an arrest warrant, according to a Washington Post analysis. Police note that serving warrants is one of the more dangerous elements of their job and often result in armed confrontations. Many police departments, however, ban their officers from shooting at moving vehicles, arguing that it makes situations more dangerous for the officers as well as bystanders.
“Anytime an individual is killed, especially a child, it’s a tragedy,” Col. Mike Edmonson, head of the Louisiana State Police, told reporters, adding that state officials continue to investigate the shooting.
Jeremy is one of 17 children who have been shot and killed by police officers this year — and is one of two of those cases in which the child killed was completely unarmed.
Eleven of those cases have involved teenagers who police say were armed with guns. In one case, police say, a 17-year-old girl refused to put down a knife, and in two other cases, police say the teen drove a vehicle at them, and in one case a teen was holding a toy weapon when she was shot.
“Grief counseling has been and is being provided to students and at Lafargue Elementary School,” said Blaine Dauzat, superintendent of the Avoyelles Parish School district, who in an e-mail said Jeremy began attending school in the district last April. “We are deeply saddened by this loss. It was a tragedy and we have had a rough couple of days around here dealing with it. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family in this extremely trying time.” -
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His father didn't shoot him...wtf?
The allLivesMatter crew stays silent. Only time AllLivesMatter is when they are attempting to silence BLM
Fighting police brutality is not a black vs blue issue (BLM acknowledges it happens to everyone just one demographic a whole lot more) but white america thinks it is.
the average wht person rather take that L, than go against wht supremacy....that's why they constantly vote against their own interest. ... if they get mad about this, than when the next ? get shot, they'll look like hypocrites. -
http://www.katc.com/story/30448192/state-police-father-had-no-gunUPDATE: Stepfather says there were no warrants out on Few
UPDATE: The AP reports that Chris Few's 57-year-old stepfather, Morris German, accused the city marshals of indiscriminately opening fire on the vehicle. German said Few was heavily sedated, unable to talk and has bullet fragments lodged in his brain and lung. He described Few as a loving father and added the man's son "was his whole life."
"I know a 6-year-old should not have been shot," German said. "I don't care what my son was doing."
German told the AP he was unaware of any warrants against Few. He called his stepson a law-abiding person who'd once been charged with driving under the influence but otherwise had a spotless record. He said Few works as a river pilot on the Red River and is routinely tested for drugs.
He also strongly doubted his stepson was carrying a weapon and said he found it hard to believe he would flee authorities with his son in the vehicle.
"Anything's possible, but I can't see him doing that with his son in the car," German said. "That doesn't sound like him at all."
Mardis was diagnosed with autism, German said, describing him as a delightful child who "loved everything, everybody." German said the boy had no siblings. The family recently moved to Marksville from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, he said. -
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/05/louisiana-police-deny-car-reversing-six-year-old-shotLouisiana police concede officers fired shots that killed six-year-old boy
State investigators conceded on Thursday that local police officers had fired the shots that killed a small boy in Marksville, Louisiana, and disavowed an earlier explanation for why the officers deployed their guns.
The boy, Jeremy Mardis, died on Tuesday night after police shot into a car driven by his father, Chris Few. On Thursday, Colonel Michael Edmonson, head of the Louisiana state police, denied earlier reports that Few had been reversing his car toward the officers, who then had to defend themselves. “No. I didn’t say that,” he told the Guardian. “That didn’t come from me.”
At a press conference, Edmonson initially described the shooting as “an exchange of gunfire”, but later clarified that only the officers had shot, and that investigators had found no gun in Few’s car. Officials had previously declined to confirm whether officer gunfire was responsible for Mardis’s death.
Edmonson also said video footage of the incident does exist, but that investigators have not reviewed it. He added that the officers involved – there are four – had so far refused to speak with state police investigators. Police have not released the names of the involved officers.
Asked by the Guardian what reason they offered for their silence, Edmonson said: “You’d have to ask them. We are trying to talk with them.”
At least one of the shooters was a Marksville police officer who was moonlighting for the city marshal’s office, an agency responsible for serving court papers . But according to Marksville’s mayor, John Lemoine, city marshal Floyd Voinche and his officers have recently begun overstepping their authority.
“I don’t know why he felt the need to start patrolling in city limits,” Lemoine said Thursday of Voinche. “It makes no sense to me.”
The Guardian could not reach Voinche for comment before press time.
Edmonson, the state police head, said his investigators started gathering evidence the night of the shooting, attempting to reconstruct what happened without the cooperation of the officers involved.
Orange spray paint marks the orientation of Few’s car and three patrol cars, at the intersection of Taensas Street and Martin Luther King Drive. The particular placement of the cars – and a spray of glass from the passenger’s side of Few’s car – seems to indicate Few was not backing toward the officers. His car was perpendicular to them, and the officers’ shots hit the driver’s side broadside.
Avoyolles Parish coroner LJ Mayeux said Mardis was killed by multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso. He died at the scene. His father, Few, is in serious condition at Rapides Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Few’s fiancee, Megan Dixon, said the entire tragedy started with a romantic dispute. Earlier on Tuesday night, she said, she and Few had bickered at TJ’s pool hall, and she had left with a friend named Sally. Few also left, and picked up his son at a relative’s house.
A short while later, Few pulled up next to Dixon at a stop light – Marksville is a small town – and tried to get her to come home with him. “I wouldn’t do it,” she said. “I’m stubborn.”
Moments later, she said, as the cars pulled away from the light, she saw two marshals’ cars – marked in black and white – approaching from behind with their lights flashing. She looked into Few’s car as he pulled away, and he was pointing at his son’s head, indicating that he was in the car and he wasn’t sure what to do.
Few was afraid of the marshals, she said, because he and and one of the marshals on the scene had a prior personal conflict.
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