Man who tackled shooting suspect: I’m no hero

The injuries proved to be fatal for Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, who died later at the hospital.

Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said it was unclear what the relationship between the two men was, but the victim was the registered owner of the truck that Daigle was driving when the state trooper, Steven Vincent, 43, approached Daigle on Sunday afternoon.

A veteran Louisiana State Police trooper has died of a head wound suffered while he tried to help a stranded motorist.

Vincent was a 13-year veteran of the Louisiana State Police.

A Louisiana trooper died Monday after being shot in the head with a sawed-off shotgun a day earlier when he pulled over to assist a driver, and authorities were also investigating whether the driver played a role in a second death. We just couldn’t let him move because he obviously just killed someone.

‘I saw my trooper go backwards and back toward his unit, where he was going to try to get some help out there, ‘ Edmonson said.

He said the tape shows the shotgun blast.

“He told me, ‘Everything’s all right”.

In the statement, Edmonson called Vincent’s death traffic and senseless.

“The gunshot has messed up his neurological output”, he said.

“Edmonson says 54-year-old trooper-shooting-identified”>Kevin Daigle of Lake Charles has been arrested.

Authorities plan to charge Daigle with first-degree murder in the trooper’s slaying. “That’s why they tell them to step out of the vehicle … because these things happen”, Edmonson said. No one answered and they had no search warrant, so they left, he said.

Meanwhile, authorities Monday also said they found the body of a man whom Daigle had stayed with, and they said Daigle is a suspect in his death. “He did what very few people would do”, he said.

Edmonson said Daigle had “numerous DWIs” and other arrests that he would not discuss because he did not know if they resulted in convictions.

Vincent had a lifelong dream of becoming a trooper and joined the Louisiana State Police in 2003.

Daigle attempted to flee the scene but was detained by other motorists who wrestled the shotgun away from him and detained him with Vincent’s handcuffs.

Both Daigle and the trooper who was shot are white, he said. “I could not be more proud”.