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 Two Louisiana law enforcement officers were arrested Friday in the shooting death of a 6-year-old boy, which occurred as both officers were working side jobs as city marshals, authorities said. 
 
 Derrick Stafford, 32, and Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, were arrested and charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder, Louisiana State Police superintendent Col. Michael Edmonson said. 
 
 The boy, Jeremy Davis Mardis, was killed and his father, Chris Few, was wounded after shots were fired into their vehicle at around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in Marksville, after what officials described as a pursuit. 
 
 "Nothing is more important than this badge that we wear on our uniform, the integrity of why we wear it," Edmonson said. "Because the public, the public allows us to wear that. It's not a right, it's a privilege. And tonight that badge has been tarnished." 
 
 Edmonson said body camera footage helped lead to the arrests. 
 
 "I can tell you, as a father, it was one of the most disturbing things I’ve witnessed," Edmonson said. "Extremely disturbing, and it is partly why we are here tonight." 
 
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 Questions had surrounded the shooting. Officials have said Marskville city marshals shot at a vehicle "at the conclusion of a pursuit." 
 
 Edmonson did not detail Friday exactly what is believed to have occurred the night of the shooting. He has said that there was no exchange of gunfire, and no gun was found in Few’s sport-utility vehicle. 
 
 "Tonight is about the death of Jeremy Mardis. Jeremey Mardis, 6 years old — he didn’t deserve to die like that," Edmonson said. 
 
 The Avoyelles Parish coroner's office told NBC News that the boy was shot five times in the head and chest, and he was pronounced dead on the scene. Jeremy's grandmother said the boy was autistic. 
 
 The child's father remained in critical condition Friday, state police said. 
 
 Stafford is a lieutenant with the Marksville police department, and Greenhouse is a full-time marshal for the nearby city of Alexandria, Edmonson said. Both were working secondary jobs as Marksville marshals when the shooting occurred, he said. 
 
 Two other marshals may also have been involved in the incident, Edmonson said. Police have seized all four guns from those involved and they are being analyzed at a lab in Baton Rouge, he said. 
 
 "We will do other interviews and see where that takes us," Edmonson said. 
 
 Marksville is a city of around 5,500 about 30 miles southeast of Alexandria. 

 Two officers face murder counts in Marksville shooting; Body cam footage called 'disturbing' 
 
 Two officers face murder counts in Marksville shooting; Body cam footage called 'disturbing' 
 
 Three days after a 6-year-old boy was shot and killed by officers in a barrage of gunfire that also critically wounded the child’s father, authorities late Friday night arrested two of the four officers involved on one count each of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder. 
 
 Local deputy marshals Lt. Derrick Stafford, 32, and Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, were on the scene when officers fired at least 18 rounds at an unarmed man and his son Tuesday night in Marksville, authorities said, after cornering the driver for unknown reasons following a chase. 
 
 State Police Superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson, who announced the arrests late Friday night as part of his agency’s investigation of the shooting, said of body camera footage of the incident: “It is one of the most disturbing scenes I have seen.” 
 
 Key details of the deadly episode remained a mystery even to the investigators early Friday, as two of the four agents in the event refused to speak to authorities 72 hours after the killing, prompting a rare public expression of misgivings toward officers by a law enforcement counterpart. 
 
 “It’s more concerning the longer it takes (for them) to talk to us,” said Edmonson earlier Friday. “All we want to know is what happened.” 
 
 Had his own troopers been involved in a similar altercation, he said, “we would have already interviewed them.” 
 
 Edmonson declined to say whether Stafford and Greenhouse were the two who were silent. 
 
 “Tonight is about Jeremy Mardis,” he said, referring to the first-grader shot to death. “That young man did not deserve to die like that.” 
 
 Jeremy was still in his seat belt at the time. 
 
 “That little boy was buckled in the front seat of that vehicle — and that is how he died,” Edmonson said. 
 
 Marksville Police Chief Elster Smith Jr., whose four officers were involved in the Tuesday night incident, said the other two lawmen involved are Lt. Jason Brouillette and Sgt. Kenneth Parnell. 
 
 Stafford, Brouillette and Parnell are full-time Marksville police officers, Smith said. Greenhouse is a reserve Marksville officer and a deputy marshal with the Alexandria City Marshal’s Office, Smith said. All have been placed on administrative leave, he said. 
 
 Stafford, Brouillette and Greenhouse were moonlighting for the local marshal’s office at the time of the shooting, Smith said. 
 
 Avoyelles Parish District Attorney Charles A. Riddle III said due to a relationship between one of the accused and an assistant district attorney in his office, his team will recuse themselves from the case. 
 
 No use-of-force policy exists for the Marksville Police Department, said Smith, nor are there guidelines on shooting at vehicles, a practice frowned upon by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, an umbrella agency for law enforcement groups. 
 
 The shooting laid bare tensions between the city and a local marshal agency led by a school bus driver who lacks basic law enforcement certification. Marksville Mayor John Lemoine previously told The Advocate that Ward 2 Marshal Floyd Voinche Sr. recently began recruiting part-time officers and obtaining squad cars to issue tickets, without permission from city officials. 
 
 Multiple efforts to reach Voinche were unsuccessful Friday. 
 
 Voinche is not certified by the Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, according to the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement. All full-time officers are required to undergo the basic training and certification, but it’s legal for elected leaders of police agencies to not be certified. 
 
 On Tuesday night, three of the officers stopped an SUV driven by 25-year-old Christopher Few, claiming they were pursuing a warrant, Edmonson said earlier Friday. “No warrant has materialized,” he said. 
 
 The officers, later joined by a fourth, trapped Few’s vehicle at the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive and Taensas Street in Marksville, a crossing allowing through traffic, contrary to some reports that said it is a dead-end. 
 
 Investigators found evidence of at least 18 rounds fired from two officers’ weapons in the direction of Few and his young son, Edmonson said earlier Friday, adding that there was no gun in Few’s SUV. 
 
 Few remains in critical condition, Edmonson said. He declined to say if the other two officers fired any shots, which of the lawmen initiated the chase or why, and whether the body camera footage police are now analyzing captures the entire event or only the aftermath. 
 
 Edmonson also said he couldn’t confirm reports that Few tried to back his vehicle into the officers. 
 
 Smith, along with officers Stafford and Greenhouse, are among the targets of a federal use-of-force lawsuit filed in July by Ascension Parish resident Ian Fridge, who said he was tackled by officers, who also used a stun gun on him, in Marksville last year at an Independence Day festival. A gun rights advocate, Fridge said he was grabbed from behind by officers while openly carrying a weapon as the lawmen taunted, “you’re definitely not a local boy,” according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Fridge also said the officers took his cellphone and deleted his recording of the incident. 
 
 Smith did not respond to requests for comment on the lawsuit. 
 
 Stafford is an eight-year veteran of the force, while Brouillette has served 13 years, and Parnell, five years, Smith said. He did not provide information on how long Greenhouse has served as a reserve Marksville officer, but Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement records show he was POST-certified in 2011. 
 
 The issue of whether it’s OK for officers to fire at a moving automobile can provoke different answers about police use of force. 
 
 State Police spokesman Brooks David said shooting at a moving vehicle “is prohibited, unless deadly force is justified.” 
 
 “We won’t shoot to disable a vehicle,” David said. “If he’s putting that officer’s life in danger or someone else’s life in danger, you can fire at them.” 
 
 Bob Wertz, a law enforcement training officer with the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, said when it comes to shooting at vehicles, he defers to the policies of individual departments. 
 
 While Smith said his organization has no such guidelines, he offered that the Police Department does have some rules but did not provide them. 
 
 “The bigger question is, was there a threat posed?” Wertz said. 
 
 But the international police organization model policy prohibits firing at a moving vehicle altogether. 
 
 “Firearms shall not be discharged at a moving vehicle unless a person in the vehicle is immediately threatening the officer or another person with deadly force by means other than the vehicle. The moving vehicle itself shall not presumptively constitute a threat that justifies an officer’s use of deadly force. An officer threatened by an oncoming vehicle shall move out of its path instead of discharging,” says its policy, revised in 2006. 
 
 Edmonson said the probe is continuing and implored the public to contact State Police with information about the case. 
 
 “Nothing is more important than this badge that we wear on our uniform,” Edmonson said. “And tonight that badge has been tarnished.” 
 
 Advocate staff writers Lanie Lee Cook and Bryn Stole contributed to this report. 

 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana investigators are combing through evidence in the shooting death earlier this week of a 6-year-old autistic boy after authorities charged two law enforcement officers in the shooting. 
 
 This Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015 image shows orange paint marking the spot where a 6-year-old boy was shot and killed Tuesday night by Ward 2 city marshals in Marksville, La. The marshals had been chasing... (Associated Press) 
 
 This booking photo provided by the Louisiana State Police shows Marksville City Marshal Derrick Stafford. Marshal Norris Greenhouse Jr. and Stafford were arrested on charges of second-degree murder and... (Associated Press) 
 
 This booking photo provided by the Louisiana State Police shows Marksville City Marshal Norris Greenhouse Jr. Marshal Derrick Stafford and Greenhouse Jr. were arrested on charges of second-degree murder... (Associated Press) 
 
 This Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015 photo shows the intersection near the Marksville State Historical Site where Marksville Ward Marshals chased a man in his car Tuesday night and pinned him in before the man... (Associated Press) 
 
 This Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015 image shows orange paint marking the spot where a 6-year-old boy was shot and killed Tuesday night by Ward 2 city marshals in Marksville, La. The marshals had been chasing... (Associated Press) 
 
 Col. Mike Edmonson, in a late night press conference Friday, said the two officers were being booked on charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder in the Tuesday shooting death of Jeremy Mardis and the wounding of his father, Chris Few, in the central Louisiana town of Marksville. 
 
 Edmonson vowed to continue the investigation wherever it leads. 
 
 "Let's make tonight about Jeremy Mardis. That little boy was buckled in the front seat of that vehicle and that is how he died," Edmonson said. "He didn't deserve to die like that." 
 
 Speaking of the body camera footage that was recovered from the officers, he said: "It is the most disturbing thing I've seen, and I will leave it at that." 
 
 The two officers are Norris J. Greenhouse Jr., 23, of Marksville and Derrick Stafford, 32, of Mansura, Louisiana. Both were working secondary jobs in Marksville as marshals when the shooting happened, Edmonson said. 
 
 State police have been investigating the Tuesday night shooting that raised questions almost from the start. 
 
 State police are combing through forensics evidence, 911 calls, conducting interviews and reviewing the body camera footage, Edmonson said. 
 
 Two other officers were involved in the incident. When Edmonson was asked whether he anticipated any more arrests, he said: "We'll see where it takes us." 
 
 It's still unclear what led police to pursue Few and what triggered the shooting. The parish coroner said earlier this week that the officers were serving a warrant on Few when he fled, but Edmonson later said he had no information about a warrant. 
 
 Few's 57-year-old stepfather, Morris German, has accused the marshals of indiscriminately opening fire on the vehicle. German said Few was heavily sedated, unable to talk and has bullet fragments lodged in his brain and lung. He described Few as a loving father and added the man's son "was his whole life." 
 
 German added that the 6-year-old had been diagnosed with autism, describing him as a delightful child who "loved everything, everybody." German said the boy had no siblings and the family had recently moved to Marksville from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 
 
 "I know a 6-year-old should not have been shot," German said.
– Two Louisiana police officers have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the Tuesday night shooting death of 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis. Officers Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, and Lt. Derrick Stafford, 32, were working side jobs as marshals in the city of Marksville when the shooting occurred, and State Police Col. Mike Edmonson says body camera footage recovered from the officers is "the most disturbing thing I've seen," the AP reports. Two other officers moonlighting for the marshal agency were present at the shooting and Edmonson says more arrests are possible, reports the Advocate, which notes that there appear to be tensions between the city and the agency, which is run by a school bus driver who lacks law enforcement certification. Jeremy, whose grandmother says he was recently diagnosed as autistic, died after being shot five times and his father, Chris Few, was critically injured when officers opened fire on their vehicle, NBC reports. "That little boy was buckled in the front seat of that vehicle and that is how he died," Edmonson said at a Friday night press conference. "He didn't deserve to die like that." The officers claimed to be pursuing a warrant, but Edmonson told reporters at a Friday night conference that "no warrant has materialized" and Few was unarmed. He says at least 18 shots were fired by officers during the incident, which took place at an intersection, not a dead end as previously reported, according to the Advocate.