![]() Officials said a resident of the area had notified authorities about a police vehicle whose driver appeared unresponsive, and another trooper found Gaubert.ĭozens of law enforcement vehicles went screeching toward the scene around 6 p.m., their lights and sirens blaring. He was finally taken into custody after 10 p.m.īut before his arrest, dispatchers received a terrifying call about a trooper shot near Dutton Road. Meanwhile, Mire ditched his stolen truck and then spent hours running around in a wooded area near Bayou Manchac. The search was launched just before the 6 a.m. shift change, which is why no one noticed that Gaubert was missing, Davis said they likely assumed he just went home. The trooper tried to pull Mire over 1.5 miles north of Dutton Road around 5 a.m., but Mire shot at the officer and sped away, heading north on Jefferson Highway and crossing into East Baton Rouge Parish.Ī pursuit ensued, and quickly morphed into a manhunt involving several law enforcement agencies and every technological tool available to locate Mire. In the meantime, Mire crossed paths with another state trooper about two hours after the Prairieville double shooting. More matching shell casings were found in the stolen pickup truck. Investigators later linked shell casings from the two shootings, which likely occurred within moments of each other, according to a police report. ![]() His body went undiscovered until around 6 p.m. Officers responded to that scene around 3 a.m. - but they had no idea Gaubert also desperately needed help. Authorities believe Mire shot two relatives, leaving a woman dead from her injuries and a man in critical condition. ![]() Within a half hour, local law enforcement received reports of a double shooting right around the corner on Dutton Road. Just minutes later, around 2:30 a.m., video surveillance shows Mire driving with his headlights off toward the area where Gaubert was parked, Davis said. Gaubert filed his last police report at 2:21 a.m. ![]() Investigators believe Mire ambushed Gaubert and shot the trooper multiple times before committing another double shooting at a house less than a mile away, Davis said Monday. It was a totally routine occurrence that had nothing to do with the search for Mire, who had already shot his neighbors in French Settlement around midnight, stolen a pickup truck and headed toward Ascension Parish. Instead of rendering aid, the troopers leave the burly man unattended, facedown and moaning for more than nine minutes, as they use sanitizer wipes to wash blood off their hands and faces.The night of his death, officials believe Gaubert had responded to a traffic accident and then parked in a secluded spot behind the Capital One bank off Airline and Jefferson highways to complete his report. Greene wails “I’m sorry!” as another trooper delivers another stun gun shock to his backside and warns, “Look, you’re going to get it again if you don’t put your f- hands behind your back!” Another trooper can be seen briefly dragging the man facedown after his legs had been shackled and his hands cuffed behind him.īODY CAM FOOTAGE: ’I’m scared’: AP obtains video of deadly arrest of Black man by Louisiana state troopers The 46-minute clip shows one trooper wrestling Greene to the ground, putting him in a chokehold and punching him in the face while another can be heard calling him a “stupid motherf-." Body camera footage obtained by the Associated Press in May shows Louisiana state troopers on a dark roadside stunning, punching and dragging Greene as he apologizes for leading them on a high-speed chase. ![]()
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