- Joined
- May 15, 2013
- Messages
- 55,637
- Reaction score
- 192,253
Fellow chef at Uncle Maddio’s, Rodney Smith, agrees with his colleagues version of events.
Rodney, 24, also said Harris was behaving ‘suspiciously’ after he pulled to a halt outside the restaurant where passers-by desperately tried to revive little Cooper.
He confirmed Harris had said his son had been choking and said the frantic dad was pacing in circles and pulling on the branches of nearby trees.
Rodney says Harris was then handcuffed by police officers after he became irate during a heart-breaking phone call to his wife Leanna during which he told her ‘our baby is dead’.
Rodney said: ‘He was going crazy and the police cuffed him. He was trying to tell his wife what was going on but he didn't get much out because he was really - I guess you would say - in drama shock.
'A police officer said to him, "Calm down and explain to your wife what's going on". I didn't hear what he said because I was going back in but then whatever he said triggered the police officer to say, "You need to watch your mouth" and then they put the handcuffs on him.
'I don't know what he said to the wife - the only thing I heard was that he told her that her son was dead after that I couldn't hear.’
Rodney added: 'He seemed suspicious. I got a child the same age and I know how it would feel it's devastating but at the same time it was more drama than in shock he was more acting out than he was in shock.
'When you go in shock everything pauses in your brain and you don't know what to do.
‘It was more like he was putting on a show - that's pretty much what I got from it and I'm pretty sure everyone else felt the same way.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ake-supporters-think-twice.html#ixzz37MbjcdQK
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
another:
“The car drove up right by the store. An employee came in and said, ‘Call for an ambulance,’ so I dialed it and I walked outside,” said Rodney Smith, a witness who works at a pizza shop in the Akers Mills Square Shopping Center.
“The child looked sweaty and tired. Two guys started to give the boy CPR. I was on the curb and the father and another individual brought the boy out. The father kept circling around us yelling and screaming, “What did I do? Oh my God, my child is dead!” Smith added.
Police said Harris was distressed and had to be physically restrained when he realized his son was gone. But in hindsight, Smith says Harris’ actions didn’t appear to be that of a genuinely grieving father.
“I feel he was putting on a show. If I was in shock and my son just died, I’m going to be doing more than running in a circle waiting for the ambulance to come. I’m taking my son to the doctor myself,” Smith said.
http://www.hlntv.com/article/2014/06/25/harris-justin-ross-hot-car-murder-witness