A Jefferson Parish deputy sheriff shot and killed a woman yesterday on Veterans Boulevard in Metairie.
Sheriff Joe Lopinto said the woman was shot inside her vehicle after she twice used it to strike a deputy. That officer had been responding to a report of a disturbance involving the woman and a group that Lopinto described as parish employees.
The incident occurred shortly after 4 p.m. on the westbound side of Veterans Boulevard, near the intersection with Lisa Drive.
The dead woman’s name and age were not immediately released.
Lopinto described a strange scenario that started less than a mile away on Park Manor Drive. Lopinto said a deputy first responded there to a disturbance that involved the woman hurling angry slurs at the unidentified laborers. Lopinto said the responding deputy tried to de-escalate the situation, but that the woman struck and dragged the officer several feet. The sheriff said the driver’s defiant actions turned the encounter into a mini-pursuit down the westbound side of Veterans Boulevard until the woman became stuck in traffic, where the final confrontation and shooting occurred.
