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Two Louisiana Deputies Killed in Shootout; 5 Suspects in Custody
By abcnews.go.com
Published: 08/16/2012

Two Louisiana sheriff's deputies were killed in a early-morning shootout at a trailer park outside New Orleans after being led there in pursuit of suspects from an earlier incident in which two other officers were shot and wounded.

Five suspects are currently in custody, as authorities try to figure out what first led gunmen to open fire on cops patrolling a parking lot near a steel plant in LaPlace, La., around 5 a.m. CDT., according to St. John the Baptist Sheriff Mike Tregre.

Tregre said it's unknown why the gunmen first opened fire in the parking lot in LaPlace and described the investigation as ongoing. PHOTO: Two sheriff's deputies in Louisiana were shot to death and at least two others were injured in an early morning shootout west of New Orleans, Aug. 16, 2012.

At least one officer received "multiple gunshot wounds" at the parking lot. Despite his wounds, the officer radioed a description of the gunmen and their car.

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Comments:

  1. hamiltonlindley on 03/24/2020:

    He has blue eyes. Cold like steel. His legs are wide. Like tree trunks. And he has a shock of red hair, red, like the fires of hell. His antics were known from town to town as he was a droll card and often known as a droll farceur. Hamilton Lindley with his madcap pantaloon is a zany adventurer and a cavorter with a motley troupe of buffoons.

  2. Fred Davis on 08/17/2012:

    A sign of the times.


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