Family calls for justice after man struck and killed by police car, buried without notice
The family of Dexter Wade is calling for justice after he was allegedly fatally struck by a Jackson Police Department car in March and later buried in a potter's field. The family of Dexter Wade is calling for justice after the 37-year-old man was allegedly fatally struck by a Jackson, Mississippi Police Department cruiser in March and later buried in a potter's field without his family knowing. "My son -- I never thought in a million years that he would leave me," Wade's mother, Bettersten Wade Robinson, said in a tearful press conference Monday in Jackson. "He was my oldest son and I wouldn't have never thought this'd happened to him." Wade Robinson reported her son missing on March 14, nine days after she had last heard from him on March 5. She didn't learn until August 24 -- more than five months after his death – that Dexter Wade had been struck and killed by an off-duty Jackson police officer the night of March 5, as he was walk...