REVEALED: Father used his three-month-old baby son as a HUMAN SHIELD during police shootout that ended with his and the little boy s deaths
La Mello Parker, aged three months, died after being shot during gunfire exchange between police and his father, Eric Smith, who was also killed
Smith, 30, was accused of shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend, Christin Parker, and her nephew, Brandon Parker, in Louisiana, and then kidnapping his son
Law enforcement officers chased Smith for 130 miles before his car got stuck in a grassy median in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Monday afternoon
Smith was said to have been using his son as a human shield by holding him against his chest with one hand and a gun in the other
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By - Associated Press - Monday, May 3, 2021
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - A man wanted in two killings in Louisiana died during a shootout with police Monday in Mississippi after officers from multiple law enforcement agencies chased his car in the two states.
Biloxi Police Chief John Miller told the Sun Herald that authorities are trying to determine whether Eric Derell Smith shot himself or was shot by police during the chase on Interstate 10.
A 4-month-old boy in Smith‘s car was taken to a Biloxi hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Baby dies after father killed in barrage of police gunfire
May 4, 2021
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BILOXI, Miss. (AP) A baby boy taken by his father from the scene of a double homicide in Louisiana died at a hospital on Tuesday, hours after the man was killed by Mississippi law enforcement officers who fired a barrage of bullets at the car, authorities said.
The coroner in Harrison County, Mississippi, Brian Switzer, said that the baby, who was born in January, died about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Mobile, Alabama. Switzer said an autopsy will be done to determine the cause.