Officer Involved Shooting in Tangipahoa Parish

At the request of the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office, detectives assigned to the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations were asked to investigate an officer-involved shooting.

A man was fatally shot by Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies after he allegedly fired at them, ending a two-hour standoff in a Hammond neighborhood.

TPSO Chief Jimmy Travis said the man was killed in the driveway of a home on Laurie Drive, near Wardline Road. Travis said deputies were called to the home around 10 a.m., by a woman who said her estranged husband was threatening to set fire to the house and kill himself.

Travis said deputies searched for the man, but he was not located until he returned to the residence around 11:30 a.m. Travis said the man stayed inside a vehicle in the driveway, telling deputies he was armed and had a homemade bomb strapped to his chest.

The TPSO’s Special Response Team was called in, along with a Louisiana State Police bomb squad. Travis said negotiations continued for nearly two hours before the man stepped out of his vehicle with a long gun and fired one shot toward deputies.

SRT deputies returned fire, killing the man.