Surrounded by family members and holding hands with civil rights attorney Ben Crump, center right, Bettersten Wade, center, mother of Dexter Wade, a 37-year-old man who died after being hit by a Jackson, Miss., police SUV driven by an off-duty officer, watches her son's body transferred to a mortuary transport in Raymond, Miss. Nov. 13, 2023. An independent pathologist says the deceased Mississippi man had a wallet in the front pocket of the jeans he was buried in that contained his home address. Crump says the finding came from Dr. Frank Peretti’s autopsy report. Peretti was hired to perform an autopsy after Wade’s body was exhumed. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Black man who died after he was hit by a police SUV in Mississippi was buried in a pauper's cemetery without his family's knowledge, even though his state ID was in his pocket, indicating a serious effort to cover up the manner of his death, the family's lawyer said Thursday.
