29.09.2016 - 14:00 [ Daily Mail ]

EXCLUSIVE: Father of autistic boy gunned down by police gained sole custody of six-year-old because mother, 22, was jailed on drugs charges

(10.11.2015) – Mother of Jeremy Mardis was jailed in March for possession of drugs, prompting Christopher Few to sue for custody
– He and fiancée Megan Dixon gained parental rights over Jeremy and had been his sole carers since April
– Unclear if Catherine Mardis, a former Waffle House waitress, was at boy‘s funeral in his former home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
– Thought that Jeremy and his father were driving from home in Pineville, Louisiana, to fiancée‘s home when they were shot at and Jeremy killed