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.
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.