Man charged in fatal shooting of Louisiana police officer held without bond

Marcus Hines, Shreveport police representative, said Cannon was taken into authority without occurrence.

In Jackson, Miss., officers have searched at least two Greyhound buses that arrived from Louisiana in a manhunt for Grover D. Cannon, 27, accused of shooting a Shreveport police officer multiple times.

Emanuel ordered Cannon held without bond in Wednesday’s shooting death of Officer Thomas LaValley.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Marshals Service had offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to his capture.

LaValley, 29, was gunned down while responding to a call of a suspicious person in the Queensborough neighborhood of Shreveport about 9:15 p.m. He later died at a local hospital.

Cannon was found after a day-long search, around 3 p.m., hiding in a garage structure at a Shreveport home, about a mile from where the officer was killed. The officer didn’t know the man was armed, and he went inside and was shot, Shaw said.

“It’s very reassuring to get a guy of this calibre off the street”, Hines added.

He will face charges of first-degree murder, notwithstanding prior charges of endeavored second-degree murder, Shreveport Police Boss Willie Shaw had said before.

“He was doing what he loved”, Shaw repeated. “That is the thing that he went to do”, Habich said.

He described LaValley as “just a good old south Louisiana boy who wants to drink and watch the Saints play on Sunday and lose his shoes” – and a man who would help anyone, any time.

LaValley joined the TV channel in the wake of moving on from Northwestern State University, Habich said. He was on duty Wednesday night as the call that one of their own, Officer Thomas LaValley, had gotten shot, and died from his injuries.

Shaw said LaValley came to his office while working at the television station and said he’d applied for a job but had not been hired.

LaValley didn’t believe him, Shaw said, but he assured LaValley that he would be hired if he met the requirements.

A memorial service to honor the life of Officer Thomas LaValley Friday afternoon was filled with tears and smiles.