UPDATE: Two policemen shoot and kill Autistic boy strapped in carseat

'That baby didn't just lose his life - they took his life.'

An eyewitness has come forward to describe the encounter between Christopher Few and the murder of his 6-year-old son, Jeremy Mardis, at the hands of Marksville officers.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Mark Jeansonne, Few's attorney, viewed bodycam footage from Sgt. Kenneth Parnelle and described that the video shows Few standing with his hands up.

Bonita Alexander told Daily Mail Online she witnessed the entire encounter from her home. At 6-year-old Mardis' vigil, Alexander explained what happened the day Mardis was killed. 
"[Few] was out of the truck with his hands up and they shot him. At the time, we didn't know there was a baby in there."
Alexander admitted she and her family could only stare out the windows in horror as the shooting took place, adding, "We saw everything. If only [the police] hadn't been so close up. Then that father could have run to us and we'd have taken him in. Then that baby might have been saved."
Alexander's is just one of the many voices criticizing the Marksville police department, others of whom claim the officers "mess with us all the time."
Alexander said, "We should not be treated like that. That baby didn't just lose his life - they took his life. That hurts me. Now I want to see their [Officers Greenhouse and Stafford] lives taken just like they took his. Take them."
Alexander's daughter, 29-year-old Alexis, said: "This could have been avoided if [the police] took precautions. I am very angry - there has been too much police brutality. I want to see justice served and for this not to be pushed under the table as has happened in the past. It has been corrupt for a long time here. The cops are always right and the citizens are always wrong."
Alexander and Jeansonne's explanation of the event tell the same story. Jeansonne's earlier comment on the film, which has yet to be released to the public, shows Few holding his hands up moments before the officers involved opened fire.
One of the officers, 23-year-old Norris Greenhouse, may have had a personal grudge against Few as evidence of him messaging Few's fiancée, Megan Dixon, on Facebook - claims that Greenhouse had been hanging out around the couple's home - have surfaced.

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