By Roy Pitchford, Baton Rouge Advocate (Louisiana)
ERWINVILLE, La. - A pickup and a sport utility vehicle collided Monday night in West Baton Rouge Parish, killing the Maringouin police chief and two others, State Police said.
Adeya Jamin, 23, and Raven Jamin, 9 months, both of Jarreau, and Police Chief Stanley Lockman, 40, of Maringouin, all were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, State Police Troop A spokesman Johnnie Brown said Tuesday.
Lockman also was a lieutenant with the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office, and was a 10-year veteran with that agency. Maringouin voters elected Lockman police chief in 2003.
Brown said Adeya Jamin was driving a Ford pickup truck north on La. 413 in Erwinville, south of U.S. 190, at 11:54 p.m. Monday.
Lockman was driving a GMC Yukon south on the same road.
Brown said that Jamin came out of a curve, crossed the center line and her truck struck Lockman’s vehicle on the front driver’s side.
Lockman’s vehicle slid down a hill into a vacant lot.
Jamin’s truck went off the road and burst into flames.
Both bodies were badly burned, Brown said.
Brown said both occupants of the pickup were wearing seat belts. Lockman was not.