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Latest on Marksville shooting: Boy’s funeral underway; injured father still doesn’t know of son’s death
ADVOCATE STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Updated at 1:30 p.m.:
MARKSVILLE — Police body camera video shows the father of a 6-year-old autistic boy had his hands up and posed no threat as marshals opened fire on their vehicle, severely wounding the motorist and killing his son, the man’s lawyer said Monday.
“This was not a threatening situation for the police,†said Mark Jeansonne, the attorney for Chris Few, who remained hospitalized Monday and could not attend the funeral of his son, Jeremy Mardis, on Monday.
The funeral was held at 1:30 p.m. in Hattiesburg, where several members of his mother’s side of the family live, according to his obituary. Family sought privacy and barred the media from attending the small service and several attendees declined to speak with The Advocate.
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Stafford was indicted on two counts of aggravated rape in 2011, while he was a Marksville police officer, according to the archives of the Alexandria Town Talk. Stafford, of Alexandria, was indicted by a Rapides Parish jury, the Town Talk reported at the time. The then 28-year-old was accused in that case of raping two different women in assaults occurring in 2004 and 2011.