Deputy Dies Trying To Protect Own Family

By James England

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA — A tragedy for a tight-knit community of deputies and family members as the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office mourns the loss of a 22-year veteran of their force. Deputy Donna LeBlanc was killed defending herself and her 20-year-old daughter on her own property after a neighbor opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle and killed both of them. Her 9-year-old was located inside and managed to lock the door and call 911 before the gunman turned the rifle on himself.

According to the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office’s statement to The Advocate, little is unfortunately known of the nature of the incident due to the fact all adult participants are dead.

“There was an exchange of gunfire between them,” Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff Bud Torres said. “Donna fired three shots at him, I don’t know how many he fired before killing her.”

The nature of the argument was unknown but the 20-year-old daughter was living with the deputy and she allegedly answered a knock on her door from a next door neighbor. When she answered the door, she closed it behind her, securing the 9-year-old inside.

“We don’t know what the argument was about. We don’t have …Read the Rest

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