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Tuesday 10 November 2015
Lawyer: Motorist had hands up as police killed his boy
M. KUNZELMAN scribed to the judge during Pallbearers carry the casket of 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis to the grave site at Beaumont Cemetery
Associated Press the hearing. in Beaumont, Miss., 30 miles east of Hattiesburg, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. Jeremy Mardis, a 6-year-
MARKSVILLE, Louisiana (AP) He also said that while old autistic boy, was killed and his father wounded when marshals opened fire on their vehicle in
— A police body camera Few’s condition is improv- Marksville, La. on Nov. 3. Louisiana State Police announced late Friday that they had arrested the
recorded the father of a ing, he has not yet been two marshals in the shooting.
6-year-old autistic boy with told that his son died at
his hands up and posing no the scene. State police de- (Eli Baylis\Hattiesburg American via AP)
threat as police opened clined to comment, citing
fire into his car, severely the ongoing investigation. questions from the start. Ini- gun found at the scene. died wearing his seatbelt in
wounding the motorist and Also Monday, District At- tial reports suggested the Investigators have been re- the front passenger seat.
killing his son, the man’s torney Charles A. Riddle marshals had been serving viewing forensics evidence, “It’s the most disturbing
lawyer said Monday. recused himself from the a warrant on Few, but Loui- emergency calls and body thing I’ve seen — and I will
“This was not a threaten- case because one of his siana’s state police chief, camera recordings, which leave it at that,” Edmon-
ing situation for the po- top assistant prosecutors is Col. Mike Edmonson, said Edmonson described at a son said. “Jeremy Mardis is
lice,” said Mark Jeansonne, the father of Greenhouse. there was no evidence of news conference Friday. 6 years old. He didn’t de-
the attorney for Chris Few, The case is “not good for a warrant, nor was there a State police said the boy serve to die like that.”q
who remained hospitalized any of us,” Riddle said.
Monday and could not at- The state attorney gener-
tend the funeral of his son, al’s office will take over the
Jeremy Mardis. prosecution.
Jeansonne (ZHAN’-sawn) The possibility that the offi-
spoke with The Associated cers could post bond and
Press after a closed hear- be released Monday, de-
ing in a Louisiana jail where spite the murder charges,
he said the two local mar- didn’t sit well with some
shals were ordered held townspeople who gath-
on $1 million bonds. Derrick ered outside the jail.
Stafford, 32, of Mansura, “This child couldn’t hurt a
and Norris Greenhouse Jr., fly and his life is gone. I feel
23, of Marksville, are both justice was not served,”
charged with second-de- said Latasha Murray.
gree murder and attempt- Louisiana State Police an-
ed second-degree murder. nounced late Friday that
The lawyer said he still they had arrested the
hasn’t seen the video, two marshals in Tuesday’s
but its contents were de- shooting, which raised
NYC officer who worked at
ground zero dies of cancer
NEW YORK (AP) — Fam- “It was smoky,” she said.
ily members, officers and “You felt like it was just
friends have said farewell burning your throat.”
to a police lieutenant who Simms’ husband, Keith,
worked at ground zero af- cared for her as she be-
ter the Sept. 11, 2001 at- came increasingly sick.
tacks and recently died of Doctors have been moni-
cancer. toring 9/11 workers closely
Funeral services were held for any sign that toxins
Sunday for New York Po- at the site gave people
lice Department Lt. Marci cancer. No such link has
Simms, of Long Island. She been found for lung can-
died of lung cancer Thurs- cer, but research is ongo-
day at her home. ing. Ground zero workers
Relatives said the 51-year- who get the disease may
old Simms was one of the still qualify for free medical
thousands of first respond- care and compensation
ers who worked at ground from a federal program set
zero. She spent more than to expire next year.
four months doing rescue, Simms joined the New
recovery and cleanup York Police Department in
work among the smolder- 1998 after graduating from
ing rubble, and she later John Jay College of Crimi-
became ill, they said. nal Justice. She worked in
Simms, in a project pro- Manhattan and Brooklyn
duced by the Stony Brook before joining the 107th
University School of Jour- Precinct in Queens in 2013.
nalism last year, talked “Her heart’s desire was al-
about the conditions at ways to be a policeman,”
ground zero, CBS New York her sister, Susan Fosco, told
reported. the Daily News.q
