Leah Willingham May 10, 2021 - 6:25 PM
JACKSON, Miss. - Officials have not yet said who is responsible for the shot that killed a 3-month-old baby when his father died in a shootout with police on a highway last week in Mississippi.
Activists with Black Lives Matter Mississippi are calling for the release of police body camera footage of what happened May 3 near Biloxi. Investigators won t say whether any officers were wearing body cameras at the time.
A group gathered Sunday by Interstate 10, near the site of the shooting, to pay tribute to the life of infant LaâMello Parker and two people who were killed earlier May 3. Authorities said Christin Parker, 32, and her nephew Brandon Parker, 26, were killed by La Mello s father, Eric Derrell Smith, in a domestic dispute, leading to the police chase and standoff in which Smith and the baby were killed.
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A man suspected of double murder and the infant son he kidnapped were killed Monday after an interstate car chase ended in a police shootout in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Mississippi police shot more than 20 times at car carrying slain baby, double murder suspect
Updated 8:04 AM;
By Margaret Baker The Sun Herald (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
A motorist captured video of Coast law enforcement officials firing more than 20 shots at the car of a double murder suspect from Louisiana who died as a result.
The shooting happened after the suspect, Eric Derell Smith, of Baton Rouge, led police on a vehicle pursuit that began in Baton Rouge and ended in Harrison County. Smith’s infant son was inside the car.
The video captures what happened after Smith’s blue Nissan Altima is stopped in the Interstate 10 median in Harrison County just west of the Woolmarket exit.
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A Louisiana man suspected of killing two people Monday afternoon died in a shootout with police after he fled the murder scene with a baby in his lap and headed for Mississippi.
Biloxi Police Chief John Miller told news outlets that 30-year-old Eric Derell Smith died Monday afternoon. Smith s four-month-old daughter was taken to a hospital, The Advocate reported. Eric Derell Smith (East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff s Office)
Deputies with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 hang-up call around 11:30 a.m. Monday in the 2000 block of Richmond Street in Baker, Louisiana, about 11 miles north of Baton Rouge.