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 ]