Video: Louisiana Police Shoot 6-Year-Old

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Updated Apr. 13, 2017 3:03PM EDT / Published Sep. 29, 2016 7:52AM EDT

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Officials in Louisiana have released body-camera footage that captured two deputy city marshals firing on a vehicle and killing a 6-year-old boy in 2015. The head of the Louisiana State Police has called the video “the most disturbing thing he’s seen.” A state judge on Wednesday allowed the video to be released to local media. The video was formally introduced as evidence in the two officers’ murder cases earlier in the day. The boy, named Jeremy Mardis, was killed in the shooting His father, Christopher Few, was also critically wounded. Deputies Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse Jr. claim they acted in self-defense.

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Video: Louisiana Police Shoot 6-Year-Old

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