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"The mother of a man accused of killing a Jackson police detective is speaking out.\u201CHe did a bad thing, I don\u2019t deny that, but he was not a bad person,\u201D said LaShon Dent, mother of 23-year-old Jeremy Powell.Dent said questions are still racing through her mind about what really took place inside the police headquarters Thursday evening between her son and Detective Eric Smith.\u201CSomething went wrong,\u201D said Dent.State investigators said Powell shot Smith before taking his own life inside a third-floor interrogation room. Police said Smith was questioning Powell about the shooting of 20-year-old Christopher Alexander on April 1.Alexander\u2019s body was left on the side of Greenwood Avenue, police said, with a stab wound to his neck.\u201CTo my knowledge, he had nothing to do with (Alexander\u2019s death),\u201D said Dent.Dent, who asked not to reveal her face, said her son was under a lot of pressure, but she said there were never any signs that he wanted to take his own life.\u201CHe had two gunshot wounds to the head. It\u2019s possible that he took his own life. I don\u2019t want to say that he did or that he didn\u2019t. I don\u2019t know,\u201D said Dent. \u201CI was told there was another officer present, but they assured me that that officer did not shoot my son.\u201DDent admitted her son had a run-in with the law when he was a teenager, but she said he had cleaned up his life and had planned on marrying his fiance in a few months.\u201CYour children are supposed to outlive you. They are supposed to bury you. It\u2019s not supposed to be like this,\u201D said Dent.Dent is also reaching out to Smith\u2019s family and friends.\u201CI\u2019m sorry for your pain, and I\u2019m sorry that my son was the one that caused your pain,\u201D said Dent."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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