New York Daily News – by Christopher Brennan
The Louisiana officer who killed a 6-year-old autistic child said that he fired shots at the boy’s father in self-defense.
Derrick Stafford, a deputy city marshal in Marksville, has asked a judge to throw out the second-degree murder charge for shooting Jeremy Mardis last November.
Both Stafford and deputy Norris Greenhouse Jr. said that they did not know that the child was in the front seat before opening fire. Continue reading “Louisiana officer accused of murdering 6-year-old in car says he fired in self-defense”

