Location

October 01, 2017

Big Boy convenience store

Lafayette, Louisiana

Participants

Incident Characteristics

• Shot - Wounded/Injured
• Shot - Dead (murder, accidental, or suicide)
• Officer Involved Incident
• Officer Involved Shooting - Officer killed
• Shootout (where VENN diagram of shooters and victims overlap)

Notes

Suspect, armed with handgun; shot and injured someone in parking lot; suspect entered store; grabbed handgun from store clerk; shot and injured store clerk; LE responded to shooting; suspect shot and killed one LE officer. Suspect recently hospitalized for mental illness before shooting.

Guns Involved

2 guns involved.

• Type: Handgun

• Type: Handgun

Sources

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• URL: http://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/crime_police/article_d6dea95a-a765-11e7-9338-673f9bcb50a0.html

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• URL: https://www.katc.com/news/local-news/lafayette-parish/accused-cop-killer-enters-insanity-plea-asks-for-judge-trial

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• URL: https://www.katc.com/news/lafayette-parish/doctors-howard-suffers-from-significant-mental-illness-wasnt-capable-of-waiving-miranda-rights

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• URL: https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/article_3647c5fc-52ca-11ec-8224-976f806bd0fc.html

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• URL: https://www.katc.com/news/lafayette-parish/judge-ian-howard-cant-assist-counsel-must-be-committed

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• URL: https://www.kadn.com/news/accused-lafayette-cop-killer-ian-howard-competent-to-stand-trial/article_02dc5342-fa74-11ed-b2d8-e30146712223.html

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• URL: https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/courts/death-penalty-off-table-in-ian-howard-plea-deal/article_3582fc84-617f-11ee-a299-8fb6f0d20844.html

District

Congressional District: 3
State Senate District: 24
State House District: 44