Jaqueline Rash is demanding answers after her 15-year-old son, Cornelius “CJ” McGee, was shot to death by a former Clarksdale, Mississippi, police officer after visiting the cop’s daughter.
Cornelius was killed near the 1200 block of West Second Street at 4:30 p.m. on May 22 in Clarksdale after he ran out of the home of former Clarksdale Police officer Andrew Bankhead, according to WREG. Cornelius was reportedly dating Bankhead’s daughter and fled when the former cop returned home and became angry upon seeing him.
Rash told Action 5 News that she’d received almost no information from the police and was told by eyewitnesses what happened to her son.
“I hear four shots when I just made it in from work, thinking he was here at the house,” recalled Rash.
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Rash went on to say that she had begun to go toward the scene when she received a text from one of CJ’s friends who lived next door to Bankhead, telling her that her son was lying in the backyard dead. When she arrived, the police wouldn’t let her see her son.
“I’m telling him that the little boy who lived there just called me and told me that my baby was in the backyard, dead, and they still wouldn’t let me go back there and see him. They wouldn’t tell me that it was him. They wouldn’t tell me nothing. They were like, ‘We can’t tell you nothin’ right now.’ “
Rash said that the neighbor told her that Bankhead shot her son twice after he fled the home.
“Now, the little boy that stay at the house, he said the man — my baby over there with a little girl — the man chased him, he said a man shot my son in his leg as he was going over the fence and then shot my son again, in his back. Why did my baby get shot in the back if he was already out your yard? He wasn’t no…
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