Feud over woman may have led to fatal police shooting of autistic Louisiana boy: cops

[niyad]

Feud over woman may have led to fatal police shooting of autistic Louisiana boy: cops







The horrific police shooting of a autistic boy in Louisiana might have stemmed from a feud over a woman — and police are now investigating if bad blood brought on the boy’s bloody demise.
One of the accused killer cops, Norris Greenhouse Jr., was a high school classmate of Chris Few, who was shot several times last week. Greenhouse and a fellow deputy city marshal, Derrick Stafford, also allegedly gunned down Few’s 6-year-old son, Jeremy Mardis.

Few’s fiance Megan Dixon told The Advocate Greenhouse had a recent run-in with Few. The marshal had been messaging Dixon on Facebook, and stopped by the house she shared with Few.The meeting did not go well. “I told Chris and Chris confronted him about it and told him, ‘Next time you come to my house I’m going to hurt you,” Dixon told the Advocate.

It’s unclear if any of the three kept in touch before the shooting or what Greenhouse said to Dixon in his messages. Dixon could not be reached for further comment.Greenhouse and Stafford are accused of driving up to Few and his son at a dead end and firing 18 shots at them.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/feud-led-police-shoot-autistic-la-boy-cops-article-1.2429869

The marshals said they were trying to serve a warrant on Few, but city officials said there is no evidence of any warrant for the father, nor any evidence that he was armed or attacked the marshals. Body cam footage, which has not been released, shows Few had his hands up in the car, according to Few's lawyer.

Greenhouse and Stafford are each charged with murder and attempted murder, and are being held on $1 million bail.

[bravenak]

1. Oh my God. Oh my god. Oh. My. God. Oh no. This is bad.

That poor baby. Sweet child. Under the jail.

[niyad]

2. pity we don't have a penal colony in outer space.

[bravenak]

3. Like Alien3. Yes.

[Stargazer09]

4. I'm up for creating one

Those assholes deserve a painful death for killing a child in cold blood.

[bravenak]

6. Me too. Send them to mine the moon or something. Or mars.

Or a desert island. I feel hate.

[malaise]

18. His murder was horrific

What they did to his daddy was just as bad as killing him. The only good news is that these murderous scumbags will be locked away for life.

[EL34x4]

19. From what I've read

These two should've been in prison a long time ago.

[malaise]

22. Precisely

[bravenak]

36. I hope they never get out.

[GGJohn]

5. If this is true,

then wouldn't 1st degree murder and attempted 1st degree murder charges be appropriate?
If this was over a woman, then it sounds like this was planned, which would make it 1st degree murder.
Am I wrong here?

[niyad]

7. one of the lawyers on the board can probably answer, but I would think, YES.

[Old Codger]

8. For first degree

all that is required is premeditation, and it doesn't need to be planned well in advance... also have a possible case of conspiracy to commit murder if they planned it together... Only way to get out of the premeditation on this is that they most likely(hopefully) didn't think about killing the boy just the dad, that makes it a little more iffy.

[GGJohn]

9. Ok, thanks.

So the charge of 2nd degree murder for he child is the correct charge but those 2 should be charged with attempted 1st degree murder for the shooting of the dad.

[Old Codger]

10. Also

Every state has different criteria for the charges, it comes to the prosecutor in the end he must decide what he wants the charge to be.. some states have a special circumstances law also that can make it even tougher on the criminal, sometimes that is required to go for the death penalty.

[GGJohn]

11. Thanks for the info.

I'm personally opposed to the DP, but in this case, I'm having a tough time justifying my opposition, but be as that may, if these 2 are convicted of 2nd murder, they should be put in a deep dark hole to contemplate the heinous crime they committed for the rest of their miserable lives.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. If it's like my state, the initial murder charge is almost always 2nd degree murder

because 1st degree murder has to be charged by indictment. So the initial complaint charges 2nd degree to hold the defendant until they can get a 1st degree indictment. It's just the way the procedure works.

[Ex Lurker]

23. In Louisiana, the only difference between 1st and 2nd degree is the death penalty

is in play for 1st degree. Both carry mandatory life without parole otherwise. Prosecutors will usually go for second degree if there's any doubt whatsoever about getting a death penalty verdict, since it's an easier conviction and the same punishment.

[GGJohn]

24. This is good.

Thanks for the additional info.

[OldRedneck]

13. Let's see if I understand this . . .

One of the marshals was trying to get it on with a guy's girlfriend. Guy told the marshal to stay away from the woman. Marshal and his fellow marshal trump up a reason to stop the guy and proceed to shoot him and kill a 6-yr-old.

What was that about "Protect and Serve?"

[niyad]

29. "protect and serve our own interests, and the oligarchs."

[JoeyT]

14. Huh. I notice all the folks that were screaming

about what a terrible father he was and how cops are saints and how DARE we question them are absent from these threads. I guess they're all tuckered out from lying about how he was shooting at the cops.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. Yup

[Rex]

16. Oh there are a LOT of authoritarians biting their tongues right now.

What can they say that wouldn't be obvious bs? Glad their kind are staying away.

[GGJohn]

25. Funny how that works huh?

I thought right away that this didn't pass the smell test and was horrified at those justifying the shooting.

[Rex]

32. Me too, but anyone would have noticed the lack of gun evidence...not even a throw down.

The other two cops were not playing ball on this one. I'd flee for my life with my son. Shit...this case is one of the worse I've ever seen. Maybe white America will open it's eyes now. This was straight up murder.

[GGJohn]

33. I agree,

this was straight up murder.

[niyad]

30. just as glad that they are absent. they contribute nothing to intelligent discourse.

[Democat]

17. If the father would have been killed alone, they probably would have gotten away with it

The shooting death of the child is what made this story interesting to the media. If two officers would have murdered an adult male, they probably would have gotten away with it.

[KayLaw]

20. There's more.

Norris Greenhouse, Sr. is the Civil Assistant D.A. of that Parish. (Avoyelles)

[Lars39]

21. I wonder how many other women were forced

into a relationship with Jr.

[GGJohn]

26. Hopefully not for much longer. eom.

[exboyfil]

28. And dad is preparing to post bail

for his son.

I got to think $1M is a little low. I have to wonder if the land is truly worth $1M. It might be worth it to skip town.

http://www.katc.com/story/30491146/father-of-marksville-officer-preparing-to-post-bond-for-son

[Ex Lurker]

31. Here is a very long thread on another site with a lot of inside baseball stuff

by people from the area and surrounding areas, some of whom are lawyers. Most of it is typical rumors and speculation no different than here, but I'm linking it starting at page 50, where the pertinent background information starts coming out.

http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/marksville-city-marshalsbreaking-two-officers-charged-with-murder/59888124/page-50/

[Thinkingabout]

27. It would seem to me if this family was known to the LEO's then they would know a child was involved.

Just plain recklessness.

[Iggo]

35. Not reckless. Murderous.

They murdered that kid while they were trying to murder his father.

Cops.