11-05-2015, 10:51 AM
(11-05-2015, 05:44 AM)Duchess Wrote:(11-04-2015, 09:31 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: The story is that he was trying to reverse into marshals so they opened fire. Well, several of the bullets hit the 6-year-old in the head and chest and he died in the car. Police say Jeremy was "caught in the line of fire" when they were shooting into the car. Few was also struck several times and is in serious condition at the hospital.
Police haven't yet revealed what type of warrant the marshals were trying to serve.
I look forward to reading exactly what the warrant was for. What could possibly be worth killing a little kid for?
I checked for an update this morning; no more details released yet.
The Louisiana State Police are headed to Marksville to investigate, upon request of the Marksville Police. The incident actually went down Tuesday night, not yesterday as I initially posted. The State Police still haven't interviewed the marshals, according to their reports.
Of course the father should not have fled. We all know that. People sometimes do stupid irresponsible shit and flee police; that doesn't mean they deserve to be killed or their children deserve to be killed.
It's odd to me that the coroner is the one making statements to the media. He says that Jeremy most likely got riddled with bullets in the passenger seat when marshals were firing at his dad through the driver's side window. He says that the boy had multiple gunshot wounds to his head and torso (not his chest, as was originally reported).
The coroner has seen the bullet wounds; he knows they weren't fired from behind. So, the marshals were on the side of the vehicle when Few was attempting to reverse? Or, were there marshals behind him and beside him? No reports that there was an "exchange of gunfire", so it's unlikely the coroner recovered any bullets that weren't police-issued.
I'm waiting for more facts and really hope the whole truth is told, no matter what it reveals.
Police knew exactly who Chris Few was and had his vehicle information as well. I sure hope an unarmed man and his 6-year-old son weren't pursued and shot multiple times over what started as an attempt to serve a warrant for a misdemeanor violation or non-violent crime. It won't make it any less sad that Jeremy is dead if the marshals had reason to believe that Few was a threat to public safety when they went to serve the warrant, but it might make it a little more comprehensible.