Mississippi Police Officer Responded To A Call And Found Her Son Fatally Shot
Officer Laquandia Cooley of Hazlehurst, Mississippi is mourning the loss of her 20-year-old son Charles Stewart, Jr. On the early morning of Jan. 2, she responded to a call and when arriving on the scene, Cooley found her son laying in the middle of the street. He was shot in the head.
“We initially responded to the call, not knowing when I made it over there, the person was going to be my son that was laying there,” Cooley told WBLT.
“As we get out, I look and I was like, ‘This is my son, this is my son.’ So, I literally just go into a break down you know? Like, why? Who would do this to my son? I couldn’t even believe what I was seeing. I was seeing my own son laying there on the ground dead. It was pretty much a panic. It was just, it was too much.”
Stewart, Jr.’s father, Charles Stewart, said he was in shock that his son was killed and that he got along with everyone, “It’s traumatizing for the whole family. We’re just trying to cope day to day. Just trying to figure out why this happened and who could have did this.”
The case will be handed over to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation due to the incident involving an officer’s family member. It’s not clear whether an arrest has been made, according to NBC News.
