Louisiana officer sentenced to 40 years for shooting death of autistic boy

By Brian Seay

Jeremy Mardis, 6, left, and Derrick Stafford, 33.
A former officer was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Friday for the shooting death of a 6-year-old autistic boy in Marksville, Louisiana.
A week earlier, Derrick Stafford, 33, was convicted of manslaughter in the death of the boy, Jeremy Mardis, and attempted manslaughter in the wounding of the boy’s father, 26-year-old Chris Few, according to The Acadania Advocate.
Body camera footage played in court showed Few’s hands in the air and out of the window of the vehicle while Stafford and a second deputy officer, Norris Greenhouse Jr., 25, opened fire at Few’s SUV on Nov. 3, 2015 following a two-mile chase.
“He shot 14 times while my hands were in the air,” Few said on Friday while addressing the court. “He just kept shooting.”
The officers fired a total of 18 rounds at Few’s vehicle. Two other officers at the scene didn’t open fire. In early statements, Stafford and Greenhouse told investigators they were trying to serve a warrant on Few, but that turned out not to be true.
“There was no warrant,” said State Police Superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson.
In court on Friday, Stafford said he never knew the child was in the car and

Source: Guns.com