I love it when I get to spend all day with the media watching me.
This is what I worked on yesterday. I knew there were media crews watching us but I hoped to avoid the cameras. I wasn't so lucky,
http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20100316/NEWS01/3160312/Body-exhumed
HUMBOLDT - The family of a man shot by a Humboldt police officer last year joined hands and prayed before authorities began exhuming his body Monday morning.
"Be with us today, Lord ... We need you," Roy Glenn Sr. prayed, as the group bowed their heads in the chilly morning at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Humboldt, where Roy Glenn Jr. was buried more than a year ago.
Paul Carrier, a Humboldt officer suspended without pay, is charged with reckless homicide in the Feb. 22, 2009, shooting death of Glenn Jr.
The exhumation comes less than a week after Carrier's trial was scheduled to start, a trial that has now been delayed until Sept. 8.
District Attorney General Garry Brown has said his office filed a sealed motion that caused the trial to be postponed, but has declined to provide additional information. Brown did not return a phone message Monday.
Family members said they were told Glenn Jr.'s body will be sent to Nashville for a second autopsy, and that the District Attorney's Office is looking at new evidence in the case.
Roy Glenn Sr. said the family met with Brown recently and voiced concerns about the investigation and the initial autopsy. The family believes that Carrier should be charged with more than reckless homicide.
"We asked him a lot of questions that he couldn't answer and showed him pictures he couldn't explain," Glenn Sr. said. "We hope that this investigation will be better than the last one."
The first autopsy did not provide a detailed toxicology report about medication in Glenn Jr.'s body or explain an injury on his face, Glenn Sr. said.
John Mehr, special agent in charge with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation in Jackson, said Monday that he could not confirm where the body has been sent or why it was exhumed.
Agents with the TBI blocked the area around the gravesite as other agents and mortuary workers began the lengthy process of exhuming the body. Family members stood vigil, hugging each other, talking and occasionally wiping away tears.
After they exhumed the body, officials had to drain water from the casket because it and the vault were faulty, family members said.
Police have said Glenn Jr. was a passenger in a car and that he jumped out and ran when officers stopped the car. Carrier chased him to Mitchell Street, where the shooting occurred.
Members of the Glenn family and the driver of the car have said Glenn Jr. had already gotten out of the car and was walking toward a house to use the bathroom when officers pulled up. They say he was unarmed and was running from Carrier when he was shot in the back.
"We just want the truth," Glenn Sr. said. "We are praying this will work, because we can't do anything else. We are asking for everyone's prayers."
Alanda Glenn, Roy Glenn Jr.'s wife, said it was difficult to go through the exhumation process, but she is hopeful that more of their questions will be answered.
"I was reliving it all over again - the last year and what we've been through," she said. "It doesn't seem real. But if the family hadn't taken action and pushed this, I don't think this (the exhumation) would have happened."
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