Kevin Daigle, accused murderer of Louisiana trooper, makes first court appearance

Vincent was critically injured Sunday afternoon, August 23, 2015, after authorities say he was shot in the head during a traffic stop in Calcasieu Parish, La.

It was a scene that in all probability would have made most individuals run the opposite approach: a bloodied state police trooper mendacity on the asphalt by the aspect of a Louisiana nation street, the lights from his police cruiser nonetheless flashing as a person with a shotgun stood close by.

Burglary. Assault. Arson. A string of DWIs.

He’d only been out of jail since March. “All I could see was pure evil in his eyes”.

He did not identify the man but said Kevin Daigle, a suspect in the police shooting, was his roommate.

In a ditch, the trooper discovered a pickup truck that belonged to Daigle. That charged is likely to be escalated to murder now that Vincent has died.

Authorities on Monday had not released the man’s identity or manner of death while they worked to get in touch with his family members.

The shooting was recorded on Vincent’s dash-cam.

Police introduced LeDoux at a news conference earlier Monday but he did not speak to reporters at the time.

Before that, he’d served almost two years in prison from 2012 to 2014 for a felony arson conviction and parole revocation for a third offense DWI, according to the state corrections department.

The Louisiana Public Defender Board was assigned to his case, the station reported.

“He burned his old mother’s house”.

“You might hear him respiration, telling him, ‘You are fortunate”. Instead, the man came out with a shotgun. “But any other time he’d have given you the shirt on his back”. The police believed that Daigle was an impaired driver who needed help.

A passing motorist stopped and confronted Daigle and, with the help of others who also stopped, restrained him with Vincent’s handcuffs.

Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso says the man accused of killing a state trooper apparently had stayed with a man whose body was found Monday in a Moss Bluff home, but authorities still do not know their relationship.

Blake Brewer, 54, was found in his home at 1491 Hollyvale Drive after he did not show up for work Monday, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Kim Myers said. The district attorney’s office has not decided whether to seek the death penalty.

Vincent – the first Louisiana trooper to be killed in a hostile encounter since Trooper Donald Cleveland was murdered near Lafayette in 1977 – had a lifelong dream of becoming a trooper and joined the Louisiana State Police in 2003.

Jindal spokesman Mike Reed confirms that the Republican governor, a presidential candidate, will be in Lake Charles on Saturday at the Catholic funeral Mass to be held for Senior Trooper Steven Vincent.