October 9, 2025 • 35 mins
In this episode, Kiran Chawla brings you expanded breaking news information regarding the Shooting at the Iberville Courthouse that left one officer dead and another injured. Kiran also breaks down up to the minute information on the Kyren Lacy case in this edition of Louisiana Unfiltered.
Chapters
00:54 Shootings in Iberville Parish
08:44 Sheriff Stassi's Son's Condition
12:05 Deputy Charles Riley's Background
16:38 Captain Brett Stassi Jr.
18:50 The Suspect: Latrell Clark
24:07 Kyren Lacey's Case Overview
30:03 Investigation into State Police
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Chapters
00:54 Shootings in Iberville Parish
08:44 Sheriff Stassi's Son's Condition
12:05 Deputy Charles Riley's Background
16:38 Captain Brett Stassi Jr.
18:50 The Suspect: Latrell Clark
24:07 Kyren Lacey's Case Overview
30:03 Investigation into State Police
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Responsible attorney James Pelcha Betrouge. It has been a tragic
week when it comes to news. Two deputies shot, a
(00:39):
suspect dead killed by law enforcement. One deputy loses his life,
dies at the hospital from his injuries. The second deputy
happens to be a local sheriff's own son, now fighting
for his own life. We delve into that case with
everything we know. There's also the case of the former
(01:03):
LSU football player Kirien Lacy that is making national headlines now.
The NAACP and bant route is calling for the Louisiana
State Police colonel's resignation. Why we break it all down
for you. I'm Kieran Shala and this is Louisiana Unfiltered.
(01:35):
Welcome back to Louisiana Unfiltered, everybody. Thank you for joining
me this week. We are going to talk some of
the news that has happened just this week alone. It
has been a very, very very busy news week, and
I think the top story that we have covered is
going to end up being the shooting in Abberville Parish.
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So I want to be able to expand on that. Yes,
we have been covered bringing it very intensely on Unfiltered
with Karen, from videos to multiple articles, but I guess
I just want to be able to talk to you
a little more about the things that we have learned
and talk a little more in detail about it. So
first off, let me just give you the basics. It's
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Monday night, October the sixth, that's around seven point fifty
at night. So two Iberville Sheriff's deputies have brought in
a twenty seven year old man, Latrelle Clark. He is
in there in the interrogation room at the courthouse. So
in Abberville Parish, the way things work is the interrogation rooms,
the sheriff's office. It's all in the courthouse. It all
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depends on the parish. Prime example, bat Ridge Police or
East bount Ridge Sheriff's office. They may use the state
police facility on independence and go to the interrogation rooms there.
Every agency, depending on the size and parish, is very
very different. So here in Iberville Parish, the courthouse is
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where the Sheriff's office is basically housed, and in there
are the interrogation rooms. The interrogation room that is where
a person who is in custody goes. There's a big
difference between someone being arrested and someone being in custody.
When you are arrested, if I have done something wrong,
i am the accused person. I'm arrested and I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Put in jail.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
In custody means that the detectives think I may have
something to do with this.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
They're going to question me.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
If my questioning ends up confirming their investigation that okay,
she is definitely the person who did all this, then
I'm arrested. So in this case, they are questioning Latreuelle Clark.
He's twenty seven years old from Whitecastle. He's in for
a sex crimes investigation. The two deputies they have now
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been identified as Deputy Charles Riley and Sheriff Stassy's own son,
Captain Brett Stacy Junior. The two of them are inside
the interrogation room. They have finished questioning him and they
have decided now and told him that he's under arrest.
Latrell Clark resisted being arrested, so fight breaks out and
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in some way, shape or form, he is able to
get to one of the deputy's gun and that's when
he fires off several shots. He hits Deputy Charles Riley
in the abdomen and he also hits Captain Stacy Junior.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
In the side.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
He the suspect, Latrell Clark is then shot by law
enforcement and killed Deputy Charles Riley. He is rushed to
a hospital to Oshner Iberville. Unfortunately, he did not survive
his injuries. Meanwhile, Captain Stacy He's also taken to Oshner Ibberville.
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From there, he is airlifted to Baton Rooche where he
he has since undergone multiple surgeries. He came into the
Bouton Ridge Hospital as critical.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
In talking to Sheriff Stasy again, this is his own son,
with twenty years of experience at the Sheriff's office. In
talking to Sheriff Stasy, some of the things that he
has said is that he has lost a lot of blood.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
His son has lost a lot of blood.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
In fact, I'll read some of these things to you
that not only did he lose a good bit of blood,
he has damage to his colon, damage to his pancreas,
and that he has lost a kidney spleen. Additional surgery
could be needed. That was earlier in the week, probably Wednesday.
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Additional surgeries are needed. So he's not out of the
woods just yet. And because of that reason, they've been
continually asking for prayers. But I'll tell you guys this
that I often talked to sheriff's stasy and again it
comes down to the bigger the agency, the smaller the agency.
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Everybody does things a little differently. So prime example, Baton
Ridge Police or East bount Riache Sheriff's office, State police,
they all have somebody who is a designated media contact.
So we don't pick up the phone and just call
the police chief or call the sheriff directly or the superintendent.
We have to go through the media person and they
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give us the information for us to report. The smaller
the agency, there is no media person. So when it
comes to Iberville Parish Sheriff's office, we pick up the
phone and call sheriff stasy directly. When I learned of
what was going on. The tips came into us as
something really bad has happened in Ibberville Parish. So of
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course I start calling Sheriff Stassy, and he did not answer.
I then started going through other people nobody's answering. In fact,
I could tell the call was ignored because after wondering,
I was getting a voicemail. When I finally got a
hold of somebody, that's when I learned, hey, two deputies
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have been shot. We don't They didn't know anymore, just
that two deputies have been shot. So I keep making
phone calls. And this is where our staff is simply amazing.
It's almost eightish, eight thirty at night, and they're all off.
They all jumped in started doing whatever they need to do.
So I continue to make calls, and finally I learned
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that two deputies were injured. One of them is Sheriff's
Sassy's son. Well, all of a sudden, now it makes
sense why he's not answering the phone, why nobody at
the Sheriff's office is actually answering the phone. Slowly but surely,
we're able to piece together exactly what happened. But later
that night it was probably ten thirty eleven o'clock at night.
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I did finally get a hold of sheriff's stassy and
y'all put yourself in his shoes. He's a father also,
but he's a sheriff. He just lost one of his deputies.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
He's died.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Another one of his deputies, who happens to be his
own son, is.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Fighting for his life. You're torn. You don't know which
way to go. What do you do? How do you respond?
Do you be sheriff? Do you be father?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And it was you could tell from his voice things
were off, obviously. So let's fast forward going back to
the scene at the courthouse.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It was lots and lots of law enforcement. We had a.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Crew out there, and this scene was very active for
a very long time. So per standard procedure, anytime there
is a shooting that involves law enforcement, especially if somebody
outside of law enforcement was killed, and in this case
Latrell Clark State Police comes in and the whole purpose
of that is just to prove that there was no favoritism.
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They didn't take care of their own and show bias.
So state police is now investigating this entire shooting. It's
a little different because it involves the sheriff's son. So yes,
some things have come out, but sheriff's sasy made it
very clear that after this, he's not going to be
able to say a single thing.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Everything else has to come from state police.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
In this specific case, I believe it was on Tuesday
when state police put out a little more information. Prime example,
they're the ones who put out that his name was
Latrell Clark and officially identified the suspect. They are also
who were able to say that there was a fight
that actually happened, and that the interrogation part of all
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of this was finished and they had just told him
that he was under arrest. After that, no further information
has been put out just yet. When it comes to
the suspect, usually you have an officer involved shooting and
it's okay, this person did this, they're now under arrest.
That case, this is an open and closed case because
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the suspect is no longer alive. However, state police will
examine everything that happened, make sure it was all done properly,
make sure everything was.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
By the books.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Now, one of the biggest questions that is coming out is,
and this is I guess from the law enforcement world
that why was there a gun in the interrogation room?
And some of you listening might be law enforcement or
have friends who are law enforcement, and you're asking the
exact same question. So I've spent the last few days
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just talking to a lot of people who are in
policing or our deputies. But not only are they in it,
they might be a source, they might be a friend.
And I in the beginning will admit I was under
the impression that you never take a gun into an
interrogation room for the fear of something like this happening. However,
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after conversing with several people, what I I learned is
that that's not always the case. And once again it
comes down to the agency. That every agency has their
own policies, their own rules. And granted I've been told, hey,
maybe this incident makes Iberville's Sheriff's office re examine how
they do things.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
How do they do things? I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Part just yet, but we hope to eventually find out.
It's just too soon to start trying to get some
of that information, especially when that information usually comes from
the sheriff himself, and the sheriff is pretty much living
at the hospital right now, not knowing what's happening with
his son. But the people who did say, well, I
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disagree with that. I feel like you do need a
gun in the interrogation room. Their reason for that is
that you don't know the person you're questioning. What if
something happens and you have to protect yourself, well, you
have a weapon. But then there's this other side of
you never take a gun into an interrogation room because
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you're pretty much in a locked, small area and something
like this can happen. So I guess that's a debate
that can be discussed for.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Down the road.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But we really don't know what the actual answer is,
or what the proper answer is, I guess I should say.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
So let's start breaking this down a little bit.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I want to first off break down for you that
who was Deputy Charles Riley. We have made several calls.
As a staff, we have been working to make sure
we're able to personalize every single person.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Involved in this.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
And Deputy Charles Riley is a thirty three year old man,
and what I learned is that he has always had
a love of serving. In fact, he is he had
served in the United States Navy and then after that
he came back to home. Home is going to be
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I believe Ascension Parish because he had a cousin or
has a cousin who works at the Gonzales Police Department.
So that's where he decided he was going to join
the Gonzales Police Department as a reserve officer. They put
him through the academy and this was in May of
twenty eighteen. In fact, we've got photos on our website
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where he's getting sworn in. So the difference is at
Gonzales PD, as a reserve you are not allowed to
just go ride and respond to cases completely on your own.
You're basically put with somebody. Well, we ended up speaking
to an officer, officer Dwayne Carpenter, who I say Deputy
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Riley at that time he was not a deputy but Charlie.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
They called him. Charlie.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Riley wrote around with and y'all in talking to the
officer and talking to Chief Sherman Jackson, who that's who
he started under at the Gonzales peting both of them,
and I say both of them, just about everybody else
I've spoken to they all remember his smile, that he
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was always happy, he was always laughing. He was always
cutting up. If they went out to a really bad scene,
he did his best to try to turn things around
and leave you smiling and make you happy that hopefully
something turns in your day. I feel like that was
the biggest takeaway that I got on who was Charlie Riley.
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So May of twenty eighteen, he graduates. He's in the
reserve and that's basically a volunteer officer. He wanted to
state at the Gonzales Police Department in work full time. However,
at that time they did not have an opening for
a full time officer, and that's why he ended up
going to the Abberville Sheriff's Office. He did get a
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job there as a full time deputy. And what we
have learned is that so Ibberville Parish is probably one
of the very few parishes in this state that is
divided by the Mississippi River. You have the east and
the west bank. The east bank is going to be
the Saint Gabriel side, the west side is going to
be placuham In and White Castle, all that area that
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is split by the Mississippi River. And there are areas
in Saint Gabriel that are not within city limits. That's
why it falls within the parish. So Charlie Riley used
to work in the on the east side of things
of the parish and very very recently he had just
been transferred over to start working in Plaquhamin, which is
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going to be the west side. And the way this
works is, guys, when you're transferred, when you work at
Iberville Sheriff's office, it's not a simple Okay, you're no
longer going to the east Bank. Sometimes they work a rotation. Hey,
every twenty eight days you change out. Sometimes it's going
to be every three months you change out, you rotate. Well,
he had just recently gone to plaquehim and maybe a
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few days actually and started working there and then this happened.
So a lot of people in Saint Gabriel, this one
hits home for them because that's where he worked. A
lot of people in Ascension Parish this one hurts because
they all knew him. In fact, I've spoken to a
few different people who have said how they're related to him.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
It's such a.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Small world because of the law enforcement community. And in fact,
Sherman Jackson said this best. The Gonzales Police chief that
when it comes to law enforcement. They're a very small community,
but they're a very close knit community that when one
of them go down, it hurts, but it hurts even
more when you happen to know the person. And in
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this case, both the deputies are well known. So that's
Deputy Riley transition to Sheriff Stassy's son, who is Brett
Stassy Junior, and he's a captain with the Sheriff's office.
He has been there twenty years. He's in surgery, and
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a lot of times the immediate family doesn't want every
little titbit out there. So if there's a spike in
a blood pressure, there's a drop in blood pressure, they're
not going to put that information out there, but they
are going to say that, hey, we're asking for your
prayers in this case. Like I was saying at the
very beginning, that he has lost a lot of blood.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
So there are blood drives that.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Are ongoing right now where you can go and donate blood.
And that blood is not going to be used immediately
for Captain Stassy. It might be eventually, but it is
to replenish what he has used, and all of that
goes to help him and even help his account. His
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final bill. So if you do go, if you have
the desire to go, go donate. You don't even have
to go. If it's not today or tomorrow, whenever you
can go, just make sure you let them know that
you're donating for Captain Brett Stassy Junior. But he's been
there about twenty years and obviously he's very familiar with
Eberville Pierrish.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
This is his home.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
His dad is the sheriff. He's been the sheriff for
the last thirteen years. But Brett stasy has been employed
there before. His dad was the sheriff and he was
working nights when they had to bring this suspect in.
So keep him in your prayers, guys as we go
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through this, and keep his parents in your prayers and
in fact speaking a family. Let me add this that
Deputy Charles Riley he leaves behind his parents, his siblings,
a wife and two of his own biological kids, and
another child through marriage, so three kids total, a wife, parents,
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and sistors. Obviously a boatload of law enforcement friends and
family as well, So just keep them both in your prayers.
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one zero zero seven seven. Let's switch to the suspect.
His twenty seven year old Latrelle Michael Clark, and what
we have ended up learning is that he was arrested
back in twenty twenty four, November the ninth of last year.
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He ends up I guess asking his dad to borrow
the truck, his dad's truck. His dad must have said no,
so he's denied him and that ended up upsetting Clark.
He is walking down the forty eight hundred block of
Hammond Street around seven o'clock at night when a shot spotter,
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and for those of you who don't know what a
shot spotter is, in Baton Rouge, there is an electronic equipment,
if you want to call it, that a technology basically
that it's trained to pick up on the sound of
gunfire and that sound immediately alerts officials that, hey, there's
a scene here. Sometimes the officers will go out there
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and realize it was just a SHOT's fire, nobody's injured.
Other times they've gone out and found a body.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
So it is a helpful.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Technology, and it isn't Baton Rouge. So in this case,
they hear thirteen rounds fired. Police get out to the scene.
They ask the dad what happened, and he says I
saw my son walking down Hmmond Street and then he
just unloaded, shooting at the two trucks that were parked
in his driveway, two thousand and one Silverado pickup and
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a twenty ten Silverado. One of those bullets ended up
going through the vehicle and into the living room where
his dad's wife was sitting. She wasn't injured, but that's
where the problem becomes. Because the dad is obviously upset.
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The son ends up leaving. He flees the scene, and
he ends up calling the mother of his kids. And
so this is around eleven o'clock. He calls the mother
and says, hey, I need you to come pick me up,
and she says.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Okay, well where are you?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
He says, I'm near Maplewood. This is around eleven o'clock
on the same night, so it's still November the ninth,
and he on the ride, he tells her something happened,
and it happened with my dad. She reported that Clark
admitted to shooting his father's truck and fleeing the scene
because he did not want to get caught by Batreache police. Now,
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the same exact evening, they are on Cedar Grove Drive,
This is when Clark allegedly gets into a physical fight
with the same woman, and he was reported to have
an eight year off and on relationship with this woman.
Mind you, he also does have kids with her, and
arrest weren't indicates that Clark punched her in the head
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at least four times and reportedly pushed her down, causing
facial swelling and a scraped elbow. The woman eventually left
and called nine to one one, so a warrant is
put out for his arrest for battery of a dating partner.
Clark ends up arrested on December tenth, twenty twenty four,
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by the Batriache Police Department. He's charged with aggravated criminal
damage to property, simple criminal damage to property, illegal use
of weapons, and battery of a dating partner. Bond for
the battery charge was set at thirty five hundred dollars
and fifteen thousand dollars for the property in weapons charges.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
He was released on January.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
The second, and get this, guys, he was released into
the custody of Woodlake. Woodlake is a mental health and
addiction recovery facility in Livingston Parish. Court records show that
three active protective orders against Clark, and bond restrictions were
all dissolved on May twenty seventh, twenty and twenty five,
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so it's unclear why these protective orders were dissolved. That's
going to be a little difficult to get. But we've
also learned that Clark was facing a arrest for illegal
use of weapons dating back to September of twenty twenty
five September fifteenth, specifically in the eighteenth Judicial District, and
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that covers westbountin Rouge Iberville as well as Point Coupee parishes,
so he did have a criminal pasted. We were also
reached out to his mom to see if she wanted
to talk to us, but she has not called back.
So that's pretty much the nutshell the story of Ibberville
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Parish as to what all happened in Ibberville Parish. And
I'll even add this, guys. The odd thing is that
we were scheduled to interview with Sheriff's stassy this week
on the amount of cases that his deputies have covered
and that they have one hundred percent clearance rate. That
was supposed to happen on Tuesday and Monday morning or
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Monday evening the shooting happened, And of course one of
the things when I did finally get a hold of
Sheriff' Stassy, he said, I'm not coming to the studio.
Obviously he's not coming. His son has been injured. So
that's one of the big news that happened this week. Obviously,
let's switch over to a big other story that's masking
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national headlines when it comes to former LSU football player
Kyen Lacy.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
So over the.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Weekend, a short video was released by Kyrin Lacy's attorney,
Matthew Or. It was about ten to fifteen seconds long. Okay,
so let me give you the backstory on Kyrine Lacey.
It was December of twenty twenty four in Lafouche Parish
on a Highway twenty when Louisiana State Police say that
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Kyrien Lacey was in a green charger and he passed
up multiple vehicles in a no passing zone and the
speed limit in this area was forty miles an hour.
They said that he was driving at a high rate
of speed, so his crash ended up triggering a series
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of other crashes, and because of the series of crashes,
a seventy eight year old man, Herman Hall ended up dying.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
So State Police does their investigation.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And they determined that Kyrien Lacey is at fault and
a rest warrant is put out for him. In fact,
let me break down the timeline for you, because we
broke it down extensively. That the timeline is the crash
happened on December seventeenth of twenty twenty four. Two days later,
investigators identify the charger's license plate. December twenty sixth, they
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determined that Lacey was the driver of that charger. Louisiana
State Police contacts the seventeenth Judicial District Attorney January second,
a warrant is put out for his arrest. Lacey ended
up turning himself in and he was booked on charges
of felony hit and run and reckless operation of a vehicle.
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He was released less than two hours later on one
hundred and fifty one thousand dollars bond. Now this is
the part that's extremely important. He was set to go
before a grand jury on April fourteenth of this year.
April fourteenth, twenty and twenty five. The day before the
grand jury hearing, Lacey was in Houston, Texas. The Constable's
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office there responds to an argument at an apartment complex
where Lacey reportedly fled in his vehicle. A deputy ends
up spotting him around eleven thirty at night, and then
a pursuit started. The chase ended when Lacey crushed his
vehicle and a deputy ended up approaching him, and when
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they did, that's when Lacey ended up shooting himself in
the head, killing himself. An autopsy would later confirm that
he died from a self inflicted gunshot wound, and he
did die at the scene. Lacey's attorney, Matthew or He,
issued a statement saying that the investigation was over zealous,
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in a targeted effort and a witch hunt fueled by
who Chirn was and the public profile he carried.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
He also noted that.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
The Lafouche Peeris District Attorney had not formally charged Lacey
at the time of the death. I want to read
this to you from the attorney. It is with profound
sorrow that we confirm the tragic passing of Chene Lacy.
First and foremost, we ask if the public and the
media give his family the space and time they need
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to grieve this unimmagicable loss in peace. From the very beginning,
the so called investigation took on the appearance of an overzealous,
targeted effort what can only be described as a witch hunt,
fueled by why Chirene was it and the public profile
he carried. The decision by the investigating agency to charge
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him at all, in our view, was not only unjustified,
it was disturbing. It's imperative to understand, the Lafus Paratistic
attorney to this day has not formally charged Chirene. So
I tell you all this to kind of give you
the backstory. Well, since then, over the weekend, the Luisi
Caucus ended up saying, hey, we are calling for an
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investigation into the Louisiana State Police that they pretty much
called hiring Lacy's death. Tuesday morning, Louisiana State puts out
in about an eleven minute video and in that video
they have the surveillance video showing it looks like it's
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from a gas station. And we do have this entire
video posted to our website, so feel free to go
take a look at it. But you basically see the
green charger from the gas station. There's the gas station,
the pumps and whatnot, and then you can see Highway
twenty and you see the green charger zoom by.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
You even hear.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Something, and in the video they say that it is
him breaking abruptly and you hear the crash, and then
it shows the charger to continue driving further. Also in
this video, they happen to have the dash cam video,
the body camera footage from the trooper who responded to
the scene. And there this is what comes into question
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because some people are saying, well, I don't know if
the witnesses were forced to say this or what.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
As soon as he got out.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Of the out of his unit, one of the drivers,
in fact it was a driver of an eighteen wheeler,
said that it was the green charger, and the trooper
says it was what he says, it was the green
charger that triggered all of this. So the trooper goes
about his way and starts talking to all of the
witnesses and they also add at the end of this
video some of the statements from the witnesses.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
So that is.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
What ends up coming out from state police. But then
following all of that, the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus on Monday,
this is Monday, they requested a full investigation into the
handling of the case, but sith then after State Police
released all of this, the n DOUBLEACP is now calling
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for the resignation of the state Police colonel, saying that
he tried to justify Kyrine Lacy's death. We have not
been able to confirm any more since then. When I
say confirm, I mean that if State Police has any
comment to make in response to this, they likely will
not respond to it. But in Double ACP, we did
(32:27):
reach out to them and ask them like, hey, what's
going on or would you like to explain a little more.
We haven't heard anything back, so again we're going to
kind of have to see how this all plays out.
But one of the most important things that I do
want to stress in this case is that everybody has
said it's the social media judges and the jury on
social media that it was the video that was released
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over the weekend by Matthew or it was only ten
fifteen seconds long, and then the video that was released
by State Police is eleven minutes long. Well, where's the
full footage. Let's see the full footage. But I'm seeing
people say I need to see the full image.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
I remember when being in this.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Profession earlier, a lot of times you couldn't use all
the evidence and you didn't want to put it in
your reports because it was that much harder to get
a jury. I'm sure there are gonna be trials that
go on for this, but if you release all of
your evidence out there to social media, you can't pick
a jury. You cannot pick a fair and unbiased jury.
So maybe it needs to play out in court and
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not on social media.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
But I know that's the day and age we're living.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's the day and age that we are living in
now where everybody expects everything to happen like this and
it has to happen on social media where everybody can
see it. But that also suggests transparency a little bit.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Well, guys, that's gonna do the news recap.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Obviously, there's a lot of other things that have happened
this week as well. We're following a vanguard plant that
is looking at Assumption Parish, so of course we are
continuing to follow that as well. If you haven't watched
our documentary, we did a two part documentary on baby Ivy.
You may remember her. We sat down with her mom
and released part one. In part two, that's on our
(34:16):
YouTube channel. Go take a look at that. And then
over the weekend, unfortunately, we did have several fatal crashes
in East Flea, Sana, one an Ascension parish where a
twenty three year old man from Denim Springs ended up
losing his life. I can't stress it enough. Guys, wear
your seat belt and I'm not saying that's always going
to prevent a crash. It's not, but your risk of
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being saved is a lot higher. Whereas in one of
these cases, two of the people were rejected from their
vehicle and they were not buckled, So I can't stress
that enough. The one other last thing I want to
add is that there is a domestic violence walk that's
happening this Saturday. It's actually in Tangibahoe Pair and it
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benefits Tangy, Livingston and Saint Helena parishes. Also, remember, guys,
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. We've covered domestic violence extensively.
We've sat down with numerous victims. Let you hear their stories,
and I can't stress enough. If you hear somebody going
through something and you feel it's domestic violence, sound the alarm.
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Remember the Irish Center in bat Rouge is available and
they're open twenty four to seven. There is access to
get help. Sometimes a person may need a little help,
and maybe you need to be that helping hand.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
That's going to do it for us.
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Responsible attorney James Pelcha Betrouge. It has been a tragic
week when it comes to news. Two deputies shot, a
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suspect dead killed by law enforcement. One deputy loses his life,
dies at the hospital from his injuries. The second deputy
happens to be a local sheriff's own son, now fighting
for his own life. We delve into that case with
everything we know. There's also the case of the former
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LSU football player Kirien Lacy that is making national headlines now.
The NAACP and bant route is calling for the Louisiana
State Police colonel's resignation. Why we break it all down
for you. I'm Kieran Shala and this is Louisiana Unfiltered.
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Welcome back to Louisiana Unfiltered, everybody. Thank you for joining
me this week. We are going to talk some of
the news that has happened just this week alone. It
has been a very, very very busy news week, and
I think the top story that we have covered is
going to end up being the shooting in Abberville Parish.
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So I want to be able to expand on that. Yes,
we have been covered bringing it very intensely on Unfiltered
with Karen, from videos to multiple articles, but I guess
I just want to be able to talk to you
a little more about the things that we have learned
and talk a little more in detail about it. So
first off, let me just give you the basics. It's
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Monday night, October the sixth, that's around seven point fifty
at night. So two Iberville Sheriff's deputies have brought in
a twenty seven year old man, Latrelle Clark. He is
in there in the interrogation room at the courthouse. So
in Abberville Parish, the way things work is the interrogation rooms,
the sheriff's office. It's all in the courthouse. It all
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depends on the parish. Prime example, bat Ridge Police or
East bount Ridge Sheriff's office. They may use the state
police facility on independence and go to the interrogation rooms there.
Every agency, depending on the size and parish, is very
very different. So here in Iberville Parish, the courthouse is
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where the Sheriff's office is basically housed, and in there
are the interrogation rooms. The interrogation room that is where
a person who is in custody goes. There's a big
difference between someone being arrested and someone being in custody.
When you are arrested, if I have done something wrong,
i am the accused person. I'm arrested and I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Put in jail.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
In custody means that the detectives think I may have
something to do with this.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
They're going to question me.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
If my questioning ends up confirming their investigation that okay,
she is definitely the person who did all this, then
I'm arrested. So in this case, they are questioning Latreuelle Clark.
He's twenty seven years old from Whitecastle. He's in for
a sex crimes investigation. The two deputies they have now
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been identified as Deputy Charles Riley and Sheriff Stassy's own son,
Captain Brett Stacy Junior. The two of them are inside
the interrogation room. They have finished questioning him and they
have decided now and told him that he's under arrest.
Latrell Clark resisted being arrested, so fight breaks out and
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in some way, shape or form, he is able to
get to one of the deputy's gun and that's when
he fires off several shots. He hits Deputy Charles Riley
in the abdomen and he also hits Captain Stacy Junior.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
In the side.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
He the suspect, Latrell Clark is then shot by law
enforcement and killed Deputy Charles Riley. He is rushed to
a hospital to Oshner Iberville. Unfortunately, he did not survive
his injuries. Meanwhile, Captain Stacy He's also taken to Oshner Ibberville.
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From there, he is airlifted to Baton Rooche where he
he has since undergone multiple surgeries. He came into the
Bouton Ridge Hospital as critical.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
In talking to Sheriff Stasy again, this is his own son,
with twenty years of experience at the Sheriff's office. In
talking to Sheriff Stasy, some of the things that he
has said is that he has lost a lot of blood.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
His son has lost a lot of blood.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
In fact, I'll read some of these things to you
that not only did he lose a good bit of blood,
he has damage to his colon, damage to his pancreas,
and that he has lost a kidney spleen. Additional surgery
could be needed. That was earlier in the week, probably Wednesday.
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Additional surgeries are needed. So he's not out of the
woods just yet. And because of that reason, they've been
continually asking for prayers. But I'll tell you guys this
that I often talked to sheriff's stasy and again it
comes down to the bigger the agency, the smaller the agency.
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Everybody does things a little differently. So prime example, Baton
Ridge Police or East bount Riache Sheriff's office, State police,
they all have somebody who is a designated media contact.
So we don't pick up the phone and just call
the police chief or call the sheriff directly or the superintendent.
We have to go through the media person and they
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give us the information for us to report. The smaller
the agency, there is no media person. So when it
comes to Iberville Parish Sheriff's office, we pick up the
phone and call sheriff stasy directly. When I learned of
what was going on. The tips came into us as
something really bad has happened in Ibberville Parish. So of
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course I start calling Sheriff Stassy, and he did not answer.
I then started going through other people nobody's answering. In fact,
I could tell the call was ignored because after wondering,
I was getting a voicemail. When I finally got a
hold of somebody, that's when I learned, hey, two deputies
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have been shot. We don't They didn't know anymore, just
that two deputies have been shot. So I keep making
phone calls. And this is where our staff is simply amazing.
It's almost eightish, eight thirty at night, and they're all off.
They all jumped in started doing whatever they need to do.
So I continue to make calls, and finally I learned
(07:29):
that two deputies were injured. One of them is Sheriff's
Sassy's son. Well, all of a sudden, now it makes
sense why he's not answering the phone, why nobody at
the Sheriff's office is actually answering the phone. Slowly but surely,
we're able to piece together exactly what happened. But later
that night it was probably ten thirty eleven o'clock at night.
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I did finally get a hold of sheriff's stassy and
y'all put yourself in his shoes. He's a father also,
but he's a sheriff. He just lost one of his deputies.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
He's died.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Another one of his deputies, who happens to be his
own son, is.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Fighting for his life. You're torn. You don't know which
way to go. What do you do? How do you respond?
Do you be sheriff? Do you be father?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And it was you could tell from his voice things
were off, obviously. So let's fast forward going back to
the scene at the courthouse.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It was lots and lots of law enforcement. We had a.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Crew out there, and this scene was very active for
a very long time. So per standard procedure, anytime there
is a shooting that involves law enforcement, especially if somebody
outside of law enforcement was killed, and in this case
Latrell Clark State Police comes in and the whole purpose
of that is just to prove that there was no favoritism.
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They didn't take care of their own and show bias.
So state police is now investigating this entire shooting. It's
a little different because it involves the sheriff's son. So yes,
some things have come out, but sheriff's sasy made it
very clear that after this, he's not going to be
able to say a single thing.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Everything else has to come from state police.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
In this specific case, I believe it was on Tuesday
when state police put out a little more information. Prime example,
they're the ones who put out that his name was
Latrell Clark and officially identified the suspect. They are also
who were able to say that there was a fight
that actually happened, and that the interrogation part of all
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of this was finished and they had just told him
that he was under arrest. After that, no further information
has been put out just yet. When it comes to
the suspect, usually you have an officer involved shooting and
it's okay, this person did this, they're now under arrest.
That case, this is an open and closed case because
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the suspect is no longer alive. However, state police will
examine everything that happened, make sure it was all done properly,
make sure everything was.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
By the books.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Now, one of the biggest questions that is coming out is,
and this is I guess from the law enforcement world
that why was there a gun in the interrogation room?
And some of you listening might be law enforcement or
have friends who are law enforcement, and you're asking the
exact same question. So I've spent the last few days
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just talking to a lot of people who are in
policing or our deputies. But not only are they in it,
they might be a source, they might be a friend.
And I in the beginning will admit I was under
the impression that you never take a gun into an
interrogation room for the fear of something like this happening. However,
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after conversing with several people, what I I learned is
that that's not always the case. And once again it
comes down to the agency. That every agency has their
own policies, their own rules. And granted I've been told, hey,
maybe this incident makes Iberville's Sheriff's office re examine how
they do things.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
How do they do things? I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Part just yet, but we hope to eventually find out.
It's just too soon to start trying to get some
of that information, especially when that information usually comes from
the sheriff himself, and the sheriff is pretty much living
at the hospital right now, not knowing what's happening with
his son. But the people who did say, well, I
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disagree with that. I feel like you do need a
gun in the interrogation room. Their reason for that is
that you don't know the person you're questioning. What if
something happens and you have to protect yourself, well, you
have a weapon. But then there's this other side of
you never take a gun into an interrogation room because
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you're pretty much in a locked, small area and something
like this can happen. So I guess that's a debate
that can be discussed for.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Down the road.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But we really don't know what the actual answer is,
or what the proper answer is, I guess I should say.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
So let's start breaking this down a little bit.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I want to first off break down for you that
who was Deputy Charles Riley. We have made several calls.
As a staff, we have been working to make sure
we're able to personalize every single person.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Involved in this.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
And Deputy Charles Riley is a thirty three year old man,
and what I learned is that he has always had
a love of serving. In fact, he is he had
served in the United States Navy and then after that
he came back to home. Home is going to be
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I believe Ascension Parish because he had a cousin or
has a cousin who works at the Gonzales Police Department.
So that's where he decided he was going to join
the Gonzales Police Department as a reserve officer. They put
him through the academy and this was in May of
twenty eighteen. In fact, we've got photos on our website
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where he's getting sworn in. So the difference is at
Gonzales PD, as a reserve you are not allowed to
just go ride and respond to cases completely on your own.
You're basically put with somebody. Well, we ended up speaking
to an officer, officer Dwayne Carpenter, who I say Deputy
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Riley at that time he was not a deputy but Charlie.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
They called him. Charlie.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Riley wrote around with and y'all in talking to the
officer and talking to Chief Sherman Jackson, who that's who
he started under at the Gonzales peting both of them,
and I say both of them, just about everybody else
I've spoken to they all remember his smile, that he
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was always happy, he was always laughing. He was always
cutting up. If they went out to a really bad scene,
he did his best to try to turn things around
and leave you smiling and make you happy that hopefully
something turns in your day. I feel like that was
the biggest takeaway that I got on who was Charlie Riley.
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So May of twenty eighteen, he graduates. He's in the
reserve and that's basically a volunteer officer. He wanted to
state at the Gonzales Police Department in work full time. However,
at that time they did not have an opening for
a full time officer, and that's why he ended up
going to the Abberville Sheriff's Office. He did get a
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job there as a full time deputy. And what we
have learned is that so Ibberville Parish is probably one
of the very few parishes in this state that is
divided by the Mississippi River. You have the east and
the west bank. The east bank is going to be
the Saint Gabriel side, the west side is going to
be placuham In and White Castle, all that area that
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is split by the Mississippi River. And there are areas
in Saint Gabriel that are not within city limits. That's
why it falls within the parish. So Charlie Riley used
to work in the on the east side of things
of the parish and very very recently he had just
been transferred over to start working in Plaquhamin, which is
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going to be the west side. And the way this
works is, guys, when you're transferred, when you work at
Iberville Sheriff's office, it's not a simple Okay, you're no
longer going to the east Bank. Sometimes they work a rotation. Hey,
every twenty eight days you change out. Sometimes it's going
to be every three months you change out, you rotate. Well,
he had just recently gone to plaquehim and maybe a
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few days actually and started working there and then this happened.
So a lot of people in Saint Gabriel, this one
hits home for them because that's where he worked. A
lot of people in Ascension Parish this one hurts because
they all knew him. In fact, I've spoken to a
few different people who have said how they're related to him.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
It's such a.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Small world because of the law enforcement community. And in fact,
Sherman Jackson said this best. The Gonzales Police chief that
when it comes to law enforcement. They're a very small community,
but they're a very close knit community that when one
of them go down, it hurts, but it hurts even
more when you happen to know the person. And in
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this case, both the deputies are well known. So that's
Deputy Riley transition to Sheriff Stassy's son, who is Brett
Stassy Junior, and he's a captain with the Sheriff's office.
He has been there twenty years. He's in surgery, and
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a lot of times the immediate family doesn't want every
little titbit out there. So if there's a spike in
a blood pressure, there's a drop in blood pressure, they're
not going to put that information out there, but they
are going to say that, hey, we're asking for your
prayers in this case. Like I was saying at the
very beginning, that he has lost a lot of blood.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
So there are blood drives that.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Are ongoing right now where you can go and donate blood.
And that blood is not going to be used immediately
for Captain Stassy. It might be eventually, but it is
to replenish what he has used, and all of that
goes to help him and even help his account. His
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final bill. So if you do go, if you have
the desire to go, go donate. You don't even have
to go. If it's not today or tomorrow, whenever you
can go, just make sure you let them know that
you're donating for Captain Brett Stassy Junior. But he's been
there about twenty years and obviously he's very familiar with
Eberville Pierrish.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
This is his home.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
His dad is the sheriff. He's been the sheriff for
the last thirteen years. But Brett stasy has been employed
there before. His dad was the sheriff and he was
working nights when they had to bring this suspect in.
So keep him in your prayers, guys as we go
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through this, and keep his parents in your prayers and
in fact speaking a family. Let me add this that
Deputy Charles Riley he leaves behind his parents, his siblings,
a wife and two of his own biological kids, and
another child through marriage, so three kids total, a wife, parents,
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and sistors. Obviously a boatload of law enforcement friends and
family as well, So just keep them both in your prayers.
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one zero zero seven seven. Let's switch to the suspect.
His twenty seven year old Latrelle Michael Clark, and what
we have ended up learning is that he was arrested
back in twenty twenty four, November the ninth of last year.
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He ends up I guess asking his dad to borrow
the truck, his dad's truck. His dad must have said no,
so he's denied him and that ended up upsetting Clark.
He is walking down the forty eight hundred block of
Hammond Street around seven o'clock at night when a shot spotter,
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and for those of you who don't know what a
shot spotter is, in Baton Rouge, there is an electronic equipment,
if you want to call it, that a technology basically
that it's trained to pick up on the sound of
gunfire and that sound immediately alerts officials that, hey, there's
a scene here. Sometimes the officers will go out there
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and realize it was just a SHOT's fire, nobody's injured.
Other times they've gone out and found a body.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
So it is a helpful.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Technology, and it isn't Baton Rouge. So in this case,
they hear thirteen rounds fired. Police get out to the scene.
They ask the dad what happened, and he says I
saw my son walking down Hmmond Street and then he
just unloaded, shooting at the two trucks that were parked
in his driveway, two thousand and one Silverado pickup and
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a twenty ten Silverado. One of those bullets ended up
going through the vehicle and into the living room where
his dad's wife was sitting. She wasn't injured, but that's
where the problem becomes. Because the dad is obviously upset.
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The son ends up leaving. He flees the scene, and
he ends up calling the mother of his kids. And
so this is around eleven o'clock. He calls the mother
and says, hey, I need you to come pick me up,
and she says.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Okay, well where are you?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
He says, I'm near Maplewood. This is around eleven o'clock
on the same night, so it's still November the ninth,
and he on the ride, he tells her something happened,
and it happened with my dad. She reported that Clark
admitted to shooting his father's truck and fleeing the scene
because he did not want to get caught by Batreache police. Now,
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the same exact evening, they are on Cedar Grove Drive,
This is when Clark allegedly gets into a physical fight
with the same woman, and he was reported to have
an eight year off and on relationship with this woman.
Mind you, he also does have kids with her, and
arrest weren't indicates that Clark punched her in the head
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at least four times and reportedly pushed her down, causing
facial swelling and a scraped elbow. The woman eventually left
and called nine to one one, so a warrant is
put out for his arrest for battery of a dating partner.
Clark ends up arrested on December tenth, twenty twenty four,
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by the Batriache Police Department. He's charged with aggravated criminal
damage to property, simple criminal damage to property, illegal use
of weapons, and battery of a dating partner. Bond for
the battery charge was set at thirty five hundred dollars
and fifteen thousand dollars for the property in weapons charges.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
He was released on January.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
The second, and get this, guys, he was released into
the custody of Woodlake. Woodlake is a mental health and
addiction recovery facility in Livingston Parish. Court records show that
three active protective orders against Clark, and bond restrictions were
all dissolved on May twenty seventh, twenty and twenty five,
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so it's unclear why these protective orders were dissolved. That's
going to be a little difficult to get. But we've
also learned that Clark was facing a arrest for illegal
use of weapons dating back to September of twenty twenty
five September fifteenth, specifically in the eighteenth Judicial District, and
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that covers westbountin Rouge Iberville as well as Point Coupee parishes,
so he did have a criminal pasted. We were also
reached out to his mom to see if she wanted
to talk to us, but she has not called back.
So that's pretty much the nutshell the story of Ibberville
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Parish as to what all happened in Ibberville Parish. And
I'll even add this, guys. The odd thing is that
we were scheduled to interview with Sheriff's stassy this week
on the amount of cases that his deputies have covered
and that they have one hundred percent clearance rate. That
was supposed to happen on Tuesday and Monday morning or
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Monday evening the shooting happened, And of course one of
the things when I did finally get a hold of
Sheriff' Stassy, he said, I'm not coming to the studio.
Obviously he's not coming. His son has been injured. So
that's one of the big news that happened this week. Obviously,
let's switch over to a big other story that's masking
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national headlines when it comes to former LSU football player
Kyen Lacy.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
So over the.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Weekend, a short video was released by Kyrin Lacy's attorney,
Matthew Or. It was about ten to fifteen seconds long. Okay,
so let me give you the backstory on Kyrine Lacey.
It was December of twenty twenty four in Lafouche Parish
on a Highway twenty when Louisiana State Police say that
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Kyrien Lacey was in a green charger and he passed
up multiple vehicles in a no passing zone and the
speed limit in this area was forty miles an hour.
They said that he was driving at a high rate
of speed, so his crash ended up triggering a series
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of other crashes, and because of the series of crashes,
a seventy eight year old man, Herman Hall ended up dying.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
So State Police does their investigation.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And they determined that Kyrien Lacey is at fault and
a rest warrant is put out for him. In fact,
let me break down the timeline for you, because we
broke it down extensively. That the timeline is the crash
happened on December seventeenth of twenty twenty four. Two days later,
investigators identify the charger's license plate. December twenty sixth, they
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determined that Lacey was the driver of that charger. Louisiana
State Police contacts the seventeenth Judicial District Attorney January second,
a warrant is put out for his arrest. Lacey ended
up turning himself in and he was booked on charges
of felony hit and run and reckless operation of a vehicle.
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He was released less than two hours later on one
hundred and fifty one thousand dollars bond. Now this is
the part that's extremely important. He was set to go
before a grand jury on April fourteenth of this year.
April fourteenth, twenty and twenty five. The day before the
grand jury hearing, Lacey was in Houston, Texas. The Constable's
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office there responds to an argument at an apartment complex
where Lacey reportedly fled in his vehicle. A deputy ends
up spotting him around eleven thirty at night, and then
a pursuit started. The chase ended when Lacey crushed his
vehicle and a deputy ended up approaching him, and when
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they did, that's when Lacey ended up shooting himself in
the head, killing himself. An autopsy would later confirm that
he died from a self inflicted gunshot wound, and he
did die at the scene. Lacey's attorney, Matthew or He,
issued a statement saying that the investigation was over zealous,
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in a targeted effort and a witch hunt fueled by
who Chirn was and the public profile he carried.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
He also noted that.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
The Lafouche Peeris District Attorney had not formally charged Lacey
at the time of the death. I want to read
this to you from the attorney. It is with profound
sorrow that we confirm the tragic passing of Chene Lacy.
First and foremost, we ask if the public and the
media give his family the space and time they need
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to grieve this unimmagicable loss in peace. From the very beginning,
the so called investigation took on the appearance of an overzealous,
targeted effort what can only be described as a witch hunt,
fueled by why Chirene was it and the public profile
he carried. The decision by the investigating agency to charge
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him at all, in our view, was not only unjustified,
it was disturbing. It's imperative to understand, the Lafus Paratistic
attorney to this day has not formally charged Chirene. So
I tell you all this to kind of give you
the backstory. Well, since then, over the weekend, the Luisi
Caucus ended up saying, hey, we are calling for an
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investigation into the Louisiana State Police that they pretty much
called hiring Lacy's death. Tuesday morning, Louisiana State puts out
in about an eleven minute video and in that video
they have the surveillance video showing it looks like it's
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from a gas station. And we do have this entire
video posted to our website, so feel free to go
take a look at it. But you basically see the
green charger from the gas station. There's the gas station,
the pumps and whatnot, and then you can see Highway
twenty and you see the green charger zoom by.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
You even hear.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Something, and in the video they say that it is
him breaking abruptly and you hear the crash, and then
it shows the charger to continue driving further. Also in
this video, they happen to have the dash cam video,
the body camera footage from the trooper who responded to
the scene. And there this is what comes into question
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because some people are saying, well, I don't know if
the witnesses were forced to say this or what.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
As soon as he got out.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Of the out of his unit, one of the drivers,
in fact it was a driver of an eighteen wheeler,
said that it was the green charger, and the trooper
says it was what he says, it was the green
charger that triggered all of this. So the trooper goes
about his way and starts talking to all of the
witnesses and they also add at the end of this
video some of the statements from the witnesses.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
So that is.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
What ends up coming out from state police. But then
following all of that, the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus on Monday,
this is Monday, they requested a full investigation into the
handling of the case, but sith then after State Police
released all of this, the n DOUBLEACP is now calling
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for the resignation of the state Police colonel, saying that
he tried to justify Kyrine Lacy's death. We have not
been able to confirm any more since then. When I
say confirm, I mean that if State Police has any
comment to make in response to this, they likely will
not respond to it. But in Double ACP, we did
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reach out to them and ask them like, hey, what's
going on or would you like to explain a little more.
We haven't heard anything back, so again we're going to
kind of have to see how this all plays out.
But one of the most important things that I do
want to stress in this case is that everybody has
said it's the social media judges and the jury on
social media that it was the video that was released
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over the weekend by Matthew or it was only ten
fifteen seconds long, and then the video that was released
by State Police is eleven minutes long. Well, where's the
full footage. Let's see the full footage. But I'm seeing
people say I need to see the full image.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
I remember when being in this.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Profession earlier, a lot of times you couldn't use all
the evidence and you didn't want to put it in
your reports because it was that much harder to get
a jury. I'm sure there are gonna be trials that
go on for this, but if you release all of
your evidence out there to social media, you can't pick
a jury. You cannot pick a fair and unbiased jury.
So maybe it needs to play out in court and
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not on social media.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
But I know that's the day and age we're living.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's the day and age that we are living in
now where everybody expects everything to happen like this and
it has to happen on social media where everybody can
see it. But that also suggests transparency a little bit.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Well, guys, that's gonna do the news recap.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Obviously, there's a lot of other things that have happened
this week as well. We're following a vanguard plant that
is looking at Assumption Parish, so of course we are
continuing to follow that as well. If you haven't watched
our documentary, we did a two part documentary on baby Ivy.
You may remember her. We sat down with her mom
and released part one. In part two, that's on our
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YouTube channel. Go take a look at that. And then
over the weekend, unfortunately, we did have several fatal crashes
in East Flea, Sana, one an Ascension parish where a
twenty three year old man from Denim Springs ended up
losing his life. I can't stress it enough. Guys, wear
your seat belt and I'm not saying that's always going
to prevent a crash. It's not, but your risk of
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being saved is a lot higher. Whereas in one of
these cases, two of the people were rejected from their
vehicle and they were not buckled, So I can't stress
that enough. The one other last thing I want to
add is that there is a domestic violence walk that's
happening this Saturday. It's actually in Tangibahoe Pair and it
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benefits Tangy, Livingston and Saint Helena parishes. Also, remember, guys,
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. We've covered domestic violence extensively.
We've sat down with numerous victims. Let you hear their stories,
and I can't stress enough. If you hear somebody going
through something and you feel it's domestic violence, sound the alarm.
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Remember the Irish Center in bat Rouge is available and
they're open twenty four to seven. There is access to
get help. Sometimes a person may need a little help,
and maybe you need to be that helping hand.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
That's going to do it for us.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
This week, guys, thank you for listening to Unfiltered with Karen.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
As always, we will see you on the next episode
of Louisiana Unfiltered.
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