The family of Dexter Wade held a funeral on Monday afternoon for the 37-year-old man who was fatally struck by an off-duty police officer in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 5 and was buried in a ...

Dexter Wade, the Mississippi man who was fatally struck by a Jackson, Mississippi, police cruiser and buried without his family’s knowledge, was laid to rest Monday.

Dexter Wade was killed by a police car in Jackson, Mississippi, and buried without his family's knowledge. He was exhumed alone and placed in the back of an SUV.

Bettersten Wade says she wasn't informed of her son Dexter Wade's death until almost six months later. By that time, he had been buried in a grave marked only by a number.

Bettersten Robinson Wade, mother of Dexter Wade, cries as she leaves a rose on her son's coffin in Jackson, Miss., on Monday. Dexter Wade, a 37-year-old man who died after being hit by a Jackson ...

Officials in Jackson, a city of 150,000, have described Mr. Wade’s burial and the long delay in informing his mother of his death as regrettable but honest mistakes, a matter of miscommunication ...

Dexter Wade, who was run over by a police car in Jackson, Mississippi, will be exhumed and given a "proper funeral," said Ben Crump, the family's lawyer.

Dexter Wade, the Mississippi man who was fatally struck by a Jackson, Mississippi, police cruiser and buried without his family’s knowledge, was laid to rest Monday.