Duty Death: Shannon Brown - [Fenton]
End of Service: 13/08/2016
By Police1 Staff
FENTON, La. — A Louisiana police officer has died after a car struck him during a traffic stop last Sunday, KPLC reports.
Fenton Police Sgt. Vernon O’Quinn told the station Officer Shannon Brown, 40, died Saturday morning.
Brown was conducting a traffic stop on August 7. His emergency lights were on at the time of the crash, State Police Spokesman Sgt. James Anderson told KPLC.
Florence T. Boudreaux struck the rear of Brown’s patrol car causing it to strike Brown and the vehicle he had pulled over, according to the report.
According to Fenton Police, Boudreaux was charged with failure to move over for an emergency vehicle.