Louisiana police office,, victim dead after shooting, stabbing incident

August 27, 2015 08:37

Multiple persons including a police police officer have been shot in Sunset suburb in southeastern US state of Louisiana.

St Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz told Fox News the incident began as a domestic dispute when an officer responding to the scene was shot outside a home.

After shooting the officer, the suspect then drove from the house and ran his car into a store where he barricaded himself.

Guidroz told WAFB-TV that the suspect, identified as Harrison Lee Wiley Jr barricaded himself inside an office in store, but was eventually apprehended after a nearly two-hour standoff.

"We had to go in with tools. We had to go in with tear gas, c-gas. We had to go in with hammers and firemens axes to try to get to the door and breach the door," Guidroz told WAFB.

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