In a late night news conference, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand described the deadly shooting that swiftly unfolded after Detective David F. Michel Jr., 50, tried to search Jerman Neveaux.
The sheriff said the officer had noticed Neveaux walking behind another person who appeared to be nervous, so he pulled over. Michel approached Neveaux and placed him up against the police vehicle so he could search him, Normand said. But Neveaux flipped around, "went chest to chest" with the officer, pulled out a gun and reaching over Michel's shoulder shot him in the back.
"As Detective Michel fell to the ground, he fired two more shots at point-blank range into the back of Detective Michel," Normand said.
The officer was able to get on the radio and say he'd been shot, Normand said.
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Normand said five witnesses identified Neveaux as the shooter, and authorities found the gun on him and have been able to match it forensically to the shooting. A spokesman for the sheriff's office, John Fortunato, said he has been arrested on charges of first degree murder and assault.
The suspect admitted shooting the officer and said he was on probation for another offence and didn't want the officer to find the gun and arrest him, Normand said.