Jeremy Mardis

A state district judge has sentenced former Marksville City Marshal Derrick Stafford in the death of 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis.

The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court claims Marksville city officials failed to properly train the deputies on use of deadly force.

Body cam footage in the 2015 shooting death of six-year-old Jermey Mardis by two Marksville deputy marshal’s was released by a Louisiana judge on Wednesday, Sept. 28.