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| 17-year-old Inmate Dies After Fight with La. Officer |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/02/2003 |
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The FBI, State Police and Jefferson Parish homicide detectives are investigating the death of a 17-year-old inmate who died after a fight with an officer in a youth prison near New Orleans. Corrections officials would not say how the fight that killed Emmanuel Narcisse started, nor how he died. 'It's a continuing investigation, so I don't want to get into the specifics of the case,' said Trey Boudreaux, undersecretary at the Department of Corrections. Narcisse had been at the Bridge City Correctional Center for Youth for about a month, said his mother, Janet Goins. On advice from her attorney, she would not say why her son was incarcerated. Goins said no one from the center or state officially told her what happened to her son. Goins said she saw her son as he was being taken from the ambulance into the hospital. 'He was bleeding from the head,' she said. 'He had blood on his face. ... He looked like he was beaten to me.' Narcisse died about an hour after the 7:15 a.m. fight, said Richard Stalder, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, in a written statement. The fight took place outside the prison's infirmary. Narcisse died at West Jefferson Medical Center, like Bridge City, on the West Bank of Jefferson Parish. 'It happened right where the juveniles were going for their routine pill call this morning,' Boudreaux said. The coroner, Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies and state police are investigating, and the U.S. Department of Justice has been notified, Stalder said. What action, if any, to take against the officer will be decided once more information has been collected, Boudreaux said. Stalder said corrections officials were at the prison to counsel inmates and staff. There are about 140 inmates at the prison. 'We mourn the death of this teen and extend our grievances to his family,' Stalder said. The teenager's death was immediately blasted as further evidence of rampant violence in Louisiana's juvenile prisons. On the Senate floor, state Sen. Donald Cravins, D-Lafayette, broke the news of the teenager's death to other lawmakers. 'It points to the fact that we need to overhaul our juvenile justice system. We need to change that system in Louisiana -- it's failed and failed miserably,' Cravins. |
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