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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Blanco

Mother learns missing son was killed and buried by police after spending months searching for him

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A grieving mother has opened up about her heartbreak upon learning that her son was run over by a police officer and buried in a common grave — after she spent seven agonizing months searching for him.

Thirty-seven-year-old Dexter Wade was killed less than an hour after he left his mother’s home in Jackson, Mississippi on 5 March, NBC reports. As he walked across Interstate 55, Wade was fatally struck by an off-duty corporal driving a police SUV.

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