Coroner's inquest to be held in fatal police shooting of Kermith Sonnier

For five months, Kermith Sonnier has wondered why the police shot his son in the back and why they were chasing him in the first place. "There's just a lot of unanswered questions," he said. His son, Kermith Sonnier Jr., a Louisiana native who had been living in the Washington County community of Denbo Heights, was killed by police gunfire on May 5 during a chase through Brownsville borough and township. A bullet hit him near his left shoulder blade. He died from the wound. Authorities are holding a coroner's inquest on Thursday into Sonnier Jr.'s death at the Fayette County Courthouse. [more ]