It does not go unnoticed the national media is silent on this shooting/murder. Six-year-old killed, his father critically wounded as police opened fire shooting into their vehicle 18 times. The victims were unarmed. The little boy died in his seat, still buckled. State police say body camera footage: “one of the most disturbing scenes I have seen” .
LOUISIANA – Three days after a 6-year-old boy was shot and killed by officers in a barrage of gunfire that also critically wounded the child’s father, authorities late Friday night arrested two of the four officers involved on one count each of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.
Local deputy marshals Lt. Derrick Stafford, 32, and Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, were on the scene when officers fired at least 18 rounds at an unarmed man and his son Tuesday night in Marksville, authorities said, after cornering the driver for unknown reasons following a chase.
State Police Superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson, who announced the arrests late Friday night as part of his agency’s investigation of the shooting, said of body camera footage of the incident: “It is one of the most disturbing scenes I have seen.” (more…)