Louisiana trooper shot in head, critically injured during traffic stop

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

LAKE CHARLES, La. — A Louisiana state trooper was shot in the head and critically injured Sunday when he tried to stop a driver suspected of being drunk or drugged in southwest Louisiana, Louisiana State Police said.

Other drivers stopped the alleged gunman and helped the officer until paramedics arrived, Col. Michael D. Edmonson, head of state police, said in a message on the department's Facebook page.

The message's subject line was "Trooper Critically Injured — Prayers Needed."

Capt. Doug Cain, a state police spokesman, confirmed that the officer, whose name was not immediately released, was shot in the head.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20150823-louisiana-trooper-shot-in-head-critically-injured-during-traffic-stop.ece

[840high]

1. My healing prayers go out.

[shenmue]

2. :(

[SusanCalvin]

3. Not a job I'd want.

Even with the current discussion about police misconduct, I never forget that part of their job is to walk up to people while bearing bad news.

Best hopes and wishes to him and his family.

[kacekwl]

5. You and me both

Not an easy job by any means. So sad.

[Fred Sanders]

14. Going into the streets of America filled to the brim with 320 million guns in untrained hands... agreed, not me!

Guns are the real terrorists in America.

[SusanCalvin]

17. Completely agree.

Question is, how do we back out of this mess? Me, I'd like to move to a nice place without a gun culture.

[Fred Sanders]

28. Why do folks so quickly forget what the police, generally speaking, have to face daily: the constant threat

of more guns in America than American hands to fire them?

I can not imagine a police force or any group for that matter, more terrorized than American police forces having to think constantly if the civilian/stranger they have detained or are engaged with has one of those instant killing and maiming weapons nearby....odds are in America there probably is.

[marble falls]

27. I agree.

[yeoman6987]

4. Disgusting!!!!! Prayers to the cop and family.

[ileus]

6. T&P for the officer and family.

[BlueJazz]

7. Damn.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Guns, guns, everywhere.....both police and public are living in terror, or dying for no reason but the 320 million GUNS.

[TeddyR]

9. Give it a rest for once

[Hoyt]

10. Give what a rest? This might not have happened if there were a lot less

guns and gun fanciers.

The police are paranoid of guns (doesn't excuse shooting obviously unarmed suspects once it's clear they are unarmed) , the majority of citizens who don't worship gunz are concerned, and gun fanciers don't care as long as they have their guns.

[freshwest]

20. It's stuff like this is why the police are paranoid. There are lot of militia and sovereign citizens

roaming about and being encouraged to kill, like the Millers in Nevada who were cheered by Kokesh, Infowars, the Oathkeepers and other RWNJ groups.

People want to have some 'peace officers' to keep the peace, not a war zone that was created by stochastic terrorists. And the fallout is on unarmed people, most of them minorities, from paranoid cops.

[GGJohn]

23. Give it a fucking rest Hoyt.

This is a tragedy and you and a couple decide to turn it into an anti gun rant.
Disgusting.

[Hoyt]

24. Yep, a tragedy you and your 3, going on 4, gun safes full of guns and ammo

help create, not to mention your promotion of more guns in more places, support of folks like Zimmerman, etc.

[sarisataka]

33. By your standard

The police are paranoid of guns (doesn't excuse shooting obviously unarmed suspects once it's clear they are unarmed)

the shootings of John Crawford lll and Tamir Rice were justified...

[Hoyt]

34. Oh no. But if you gun guys weren't bent on putting gunz in everybody's pants,

the police couldn't get away with the "he might have had a gun" excuse.

[sarisataka]

35. I don't want guns/z/

In everyone's pants; in fact I strongly reccomend against it.

But in both cases I listed, the victim 'appeared' to be armed. That meets your standard as they were not 'obviously unarmed'

In the matter of John Crawford lll's death the police responded to a caller claiming he was threatening people with a gun. You do recall, and may have suggested, that people call the police every time they see a gun. It is further suggested to be sure and say you are 'threatened' to ensure police respond "with extreme prejudice".

[Hoyt]

36. Definitely think citizens should call law on yahoos with a gun in public. There is no reason

for so-called "responsible, lucid, law-abiding" citizens to carry a gun in public.

If you guys would stop buying the darn things; supporting the NRA or other gun promoting organizations, directly or indirectly; carrying them in public, claiming to be doing it for protection, etc., these tragedies would occur a lot less.

[sarisataka]

37. So the police shootings are justified

based on the fact they have a reasonable belief to be in fear for their lives that suspects may be armed. And if a person is shot while holding a BB gun in Walmart it is because they were not a "responsible, lucid, law-abiding" citizen. People around them acted prudently.

That is ok, you are entitled to your opinion. We do not have to agree.

I haven't bought a gun in years though my daughter wants to go squirrel hunting. I am considering an air rifle- I'll pop over to Outdoor Life and see if anyone has recommendations. As for carry, it is part of my job; though if we should pass on the street you would never know I was armed.

[Hoyt]

38. Did not say that, and you know it. There shouldn't be guns in WalMart. That would have solved that

one. Nor should you or anyone else be allowed to carry a gun on city streets. Nor should you be able to buy a bunch of gunz, adding to the gun pollution in our society. We need to pass laws like Australia so that 20, 50, or 100 years from now, we can be like England -- few guns and a lot of police not even carrying them.

[sarisataka]

39. Well you cannot claim police over-reacted

but shoot because they fear the suspect is armed- those are mutually exclusive. If they have a reasonable fear then acting on that fear is reasonable.

No one carries- that would include police. Now if only we could get criminals on board... 20, 50, 100 years is a lot of unarmed victims, per CDC:

Defensive use of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed. Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million, in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/18319/priorities-for-research-to-reduce-the-threat-of-firearm-related-violence

Nor should you be able to buy a bunch of gunz

I'm not a fan of alcohol, having lost friends and family to it, but I know how Prohibition went.

[Hoyt]

41. Restriction seems to be working well in most countries that have it. I get the gun fanciers don't

feel as potent without a gun in their pants, but that's just too bad.

So a gun is used in self-defense several millions more times than 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms. Sounds like a lot of gun guys are using their guns for intimidation when they really don't have to, or just making up BS about them using their guns to defend themselves. I think you and others have misinterpreted the supposed stats. I wonder how often people who strap a gun on before walking down the street, misinterpret someone's actions/intent and pull a gun.

I just don't believe having armed citizens walking around in public; armed racist militias; dads buying their kids air rifles with names like "Sniper rifle," "Tactical Rifle," "big cat," "Impact," "Stealth," "Steel Force Full Auto;" little kids finding dad's gun and shooting themselves or a friend; dads shooting mom; and the like, is worth the tragedies, or is the best way to help a youngster in a civilized society.

[sarisataka]

43. Take it up with the CDC

it's their report, not mine.

I'd be happy to buy a "Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun" but it does not have enough power to ensure a humane kill. (That's assuming we actually shoot a gun and not just a camera at the squirrel. I have to admit I am not the "best" hunter in the woods.)

[Mojorabbit]

11. +1000 nt

[jalan48]

13. I agree. America is an armed camp. What a lousy way to live together as a people.

[SusanCalvin]

18. Please do not give it a rest.

I, for one, thank you.

My hobby horse is election (vice voter, i.e., virtually nonexistent) fraud.

Let us all ride our hobby horses righteously!

[Fred Sanders]

26. Thank you. I am a multi-horse rider man. Driving gun nuts mad is just another horse to me.

[GGJohn]

22. Your post is disgusting. eom.

[Hoyt]

25. Why, because he like many of us, don't like seeing innocent people killed by the guns you defend,

promote, carry, fill your 3 (going on 4) gun safes, etc.

[ripcord]

31. Didn't Biden tell us to go buy shotguns?

[Hoyt]

32. He didn't tell you to saw it off and carry it in your car. I know gun fanciers

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have trouble seeing the difference.

[Darb]

42. Thank you, Hoyt, for saying what many of us believe.

The gun "fanciers" carry some of the blame for every one of these events. It is their ridiculous insistence upon stopping any further legislation that would help put an end to this unnecessary access to weapons that are just too damn powerful and too easy for a kook or lunatic to get.

Keep it up.

[marble falls]

29. Give it a rest, GG, its begining to look like a trolling.

[Historic NY]

12. More here...........

http://www.katc.com/story/29861493/trooper-in-lake-charles-shooting-identified-as-senior-trooper-steven-vincent?utm_source=facebook_KATC-TV_3%3A_Acadiana_s_Newschannel

[Bonobo]

15. Truly terrible. Shot by a crazy white man it looks like.

M prayers to him and his family.

[C Moon]

19. Sad. Aren't they usually so careful. Tapping on the window standing behind the driver.

If they can't see their hands, they're more careful. I guess it just takes one time.
What a creep the killer is!

[Archae]

30. The trooper has died...

The shooter was a career asshole.

Police: Louisiana trooper dies after being shot in head

(Shooter)



NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A veteran Louisiana State Police trooper has died of a head wound suffered while he tried to help a stranded motorist.

Col. Mike Edmonson, head of the Louisiana State Police, says 43-year-old Senior Trooper Steven Vincent died Monday at a hospital in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Edmonson says Vincent was shot by a man whose pickup truck was stuck sideways in a ditch.

Edmonson says 54-year-old Kevin Daigle of Lake Charles has been arrested. Daigle faces charges including attempted first-degree murder of a police officer.

Daigle was wrestled to the ground by other motorists who saw the fallen policeman.

Edmonson says Vincent was a 13-year Louisiana State Police veteran who was married and has a nine-year-old son.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man accused of shooting a state trooper with a sawed-off shotgun told him afterward, “You’re lucky — you’re going to die soon,” according to the head of Louisiana State Police.

Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, 43, was fighting for his life after being shot in the head by a man whose pickup truck was stuck sideways in a ditch, Col. Mike Edmonson said Sunday night. “His brain is not telling his body what to do,” Edmonson said.

Edmonson said Kevin Daigle, 54, of Lake Charles, was under arrest at a hospital where he was taken after other motorists saw the fallen policeman and wrestled Daigle to the ground.

Police video showed Vincent, a 13-year state police veteran in southwest Louisiana and member of a law enforcement family, very professionally trying to talk a man out of the vehicle stuck sideways in a ditch, Edmonson said during a news conference.

He said the truck door opened and Daigle came out with the shotgun.

“That shotgun wasn’t to do anything else but hurt someone. Kill someone,” Edmonson said.

He said the tape shows the shotgun blast. “I saw my trooper go backwards and back toward his unit, where he was going to try to get some help out there,” Edmonson said.

After the shooting, he said, Daigle wandered into the road and over to Vincent, asking if he was alive.

“You could hear him breathing, telling him, ‘You’re lucky. You’re lucky — you’re going to die soon.’ That’s the words that came out of his mouth,” Edmonson said.

He said two or three drivers stopped immediately, one of them spinning around on the two-lane highway.

That driver wrestled the shotgun away from Daigle, and, with the others, got him to the ground, and snapped Vincent’s handcuffs on his wrists, Edmonson said. As far as he knew, he said, the good Samaritans were unhurt.

Edmonson said Daigle had “numerous DWIs” and other arrests that he wouldn’t discuss because he didn’t know whether they resulted in convictions. Daigle faces charges including attempted first-degree murder of a police officer, Edmonson said.

http://wbay.com/2015/08/24/the-latest-police-id-trooper-man-accused-of-shooting-him/

[Kablooie]

40. And the shooter was white!

seems police have more to fear from gun toting white guys than black.