Police chase and shootout leads to the death of a 3-month old baby [video]
A 3-month-old baby, La Mello Smith, was killed by a single gunshot wound after a police chase involving his father on Monday.
Dozens of police vehicles were pursuing Eric Derell Smith from Baton Rouge in the United States on Monday, 3 May, after he allegedly killed two people earlier that day. The chase eventually came to a tragic end, on the median of the highway, when police opened fire. Both Smith and his 3-month-old baby, who was in the car, were fatally wounded.
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BABY KILLED BY SINGLE GUNSHOT WOUND, SAYS CORONER
La’Mello Parker, 3-months-old, died from single gunshot in shootout between Mississippi police, double murder suspect
Updated May 05, 2021;
By Paul Cobler The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La. (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
The three-month-old shot Monday during a gunfight in Mississippi between a man on the run for killing two people in Baker and the authorities pursuing him died of a single bullet wound, local television station WLOX reported Wednesday.
The infant, identified as La’Mello Parker, was shot once and died of the resulting injuries, Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer told WLOX.
The coroner did not say whether that shot was fired at close range. That information will be included in the autopsy report, which will be sent to investigators and the district attorney’s office, according to WLOX.
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.