Local Sheriff's deputy shot twice.

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Thursday, Mar 4, 2010 @07:46pm CST

A Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s deputy – J.R. Searcy - is in critical condition at St. Francis Hospital in Monroe Thursday night.

The 33-year-old deputy was off duty while helping another officer respond to a call just after 6 p.m. near a dead end on Browning Road in Ouachita Parish. Ouachita Parish Sheriff Royce Toney says 26-year-old Michael Tanner pulled out a gun from his back and started shooting at Deputy Searcy. Tanner shot Deputy Searcy twice. Police say one bullet is lodged in the back of the officer’s brain. The other deputy at the scene shot and killed Tanner.

Area law enforcement had about a football length section of Browning Road blocked off Thursday evening. There were dozens of law enforcement vehicles lining the road, driving in and out of the scene. There were officers from West Monroe, State Police, and the Ouachita Parish Sheriffs Office. The officers were responding to an aggravated assault with a vehicle that involved Tanner.

Sheriff Toney says that Tanner was a familiar name, they'd come in contact with him thirty-three times. Some of those instances were drug related,, others involved domestic abuse and even illegal weapons.

We'll bring you further details on this developing story as they become available.



I just wanted to post this,hoping to get some prayers for the officer. Hope he pulls through. :mad:
 
Tanner was a familiar name, they'd come in contact with him thirty-three times
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in a society that operated properly, contact with the criminal after the third time would occur with him on the locked side of a cell.
i'll wish the best for the injured officer and his family. and i'll wish that those responsible for releasing proven dangerous individuals back into society a long life lived in poor health.
 
already praying hard for deputy Searcy and his family. JR's aunt lives next door to my wife's aunt. we actually heard about this before it was on the evening news. as of right now he still critical. the wound to the neck/head will leave him with limited/if-at-all use of his voice, provided he survives. the wound to the shoulder is reported as a clean-through.
y'all please continue to pray for J.R. and his family.
i will update with anything i may get through the family grapevine.
 
J.R. was off-duty, responded to the radio call of a touchy domestic situation he heard his buddy describing on the radio.
DV calls always have the potential to go really bad really fast. *former LEO comment*: they get your blood up. they can go south FAST.
 
don't know if the media has reported it yet, but the shot to the neck lodged in deputy Searcy's brain. after being assessed by a neurologist he has been declared braindead and is not expected to live through the night tonight. mixed reports on how much life support is being administered.
this fine young man is leaving behind a wife and three young children. please, friends, continue to pray for him on his journey and for his family in these hard days to come.
 
We're interested in gun use. How they are used, what the effects are, what the results are. Someone used a gun to kill a second person, apparently on purpose. A third person used a gun to kill the first, almost certainly on purpose.
No one interested enough to be on this forum is surprised that people that get shot often die, but it's good to be reminded. That's why we freak out when idiots at the range with "unloaded" guns point them at us. If the idiot doesn't know enough to not point a gun at people, he probably doesn't know enough to tell if it is really unloaded or not.
 
I am very sorry to hear about this. I still have strong ties to that community.

My sister and I still maintain my parents house there for our weekend getaways.

Years ago, for most of my young life up through college graduation I went to church with the Ouachita Parrish sheriff. The dept was excellent and still is.

I know it's off topic, but they run one of the best public ranges, at least between where I live in E Texas and my son in Jackson, Ms., in fact a very new facility to replace the old one near the airport. The FAA got worried that someone might shoot an aircraft, after over 60 years of use with no incidents.
 
the family of deputy Searcy has officially announced his passing.
those of you who are so inclined, please pray for them.
those of you who aren't, please be respectful in your commentary.
 
Things like this really break my heart. He will be in my prayers, along with his family.

Just one more example of why we need better "Felon Control" in this country...

It's a horrible thing, but I don't see the point of this thread.
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A) WOW...you got guts...I'll give you that
B)I saw the point of this thread to be fairly plain...bad guy shot a good guy. Its better than most of the other garbage that is posted and gets locked here. It's a prime example of gun control not working. If the person that wasn't supposed to have a gun didn't have a gun, there wouldn't be a problem, but guess what...he did. This means that we need to look a little harder at the fact that people that shouldn't have guns DO have them. "FELON CONTROL" not "GUN CONTROL".
 
I just read the newspaper and saw that they confirmed his passing. I didn't know the man but I also have a wife and two young children, I can't imagine my family being in that position. My deepest sympathies go out to his family and friends.

Rest in Peace Deputy Searcy
 
I have a tremendous amount of respect for the men who serve everyone else selflessly for very little pay. Being an LEO isn't a job, it's a calling, and all out there who read this please know, you are greatly appreciated.
It seems like all you hear is negativity about officers but the vast majority are hard working people who put it on the line every day.
 
those of you who aren't, please be respectful in your commentary.
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i asked nicely.

this was not a contriversial shooting of an officer by a licensed concealed carry citizen.

this deputy was killed while off duty responding to a high threat situation involving a person who should have been in custody 32 arrests ago.

i will now ask nicely again.
keep it high road please.
 
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He had 33 contacts with a law enforcement agency?

One can only wonder what was going through those judge's heads when they released him.
 
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