Wash. Post: Louisiana officers charged with murder in shooting of boy, 6

Two police officers were arrested on charges of second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder for a shooting Tuesday in Louisiana that left a 6-year-old boy dead and his father critically wounded, a state police official said during a news conference on Friday night.

Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, and Derrick Stafford, 32, were arrested on Friday night after state police say they fired 18 shots at the car in which Christopher Few and his 6-year-old son, Jeremy Mardis, were riding, Col. Mike Edmonson of the Louisiana State Police said during a news conference…..There have been at least 838 fatal on-duty police shootings so far this year,according to a Washington Post database. Greenhouse and Stafford will become just the sixth and seventh police officers to be charged with a crime for an on-duty shooting that occurred this year.

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