Bettersten Wade, 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, wipes away tears as she watches her son's body transferred to a mortuary transport, after being exhumed from a pauper's cemetery near the Hinds County Penal Farm in Raymond, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Monday he is asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate why authorities waited several months to notify the family of his death. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
RAYMOND, Miss. (AP) — The body of a Mississippi man who died after being hit by a police SUV driven by an off-duty officer was exhumed Monday, months after officials failed to notify his family of his death.
