Overview

• Dexter Wade was fatally struck by an off-duty Jackson, Mississippi police officer in March, and his family wasn't informed of his death until more than five months later.
• Though there was no ID on Wade at the time of the accident, his identity was confirmed through a prescription bottle and fingerprint with the coroner's office, which notified the police four days later, but his family wasn't contacted.
• Dexter Wade's body remained unidentified in the morgue for months before being buried in a potter's field, marked only by a number, without his family's knowledge or consent.
• Wade's family, represented by attorney Ben Crump, accuses the Jackson Police Department of a cover-up in the case and has called for Department of Justice investigation.
• Crump is helping arrange for Wade’s body to be exhumed for an independent autopsy before being reburied in a cemetery, and Wade's family is demanding a “proper funeral and burial”.