By Sonia Smith
The Advocate
BATON ROUGE, La. — A sheriff’s deputy involved in an undercover narcotics investigation shot a man Thursday night after the man pulled a gun on the deputy, Sheriff Sid Gautreaux said.
The deputy, clad in plainclothes, was in the parking lot of the Myrtle Place Apartments on Boulevard de Province shortly before 8 p.m.
The man approached the deputy and began asking the deputy who he was and what he was doing there, then pulled out a gun and pointed it at the deputy, Gautreaux said.
The deputy then identified himself as an undercover sheriff’s deputy. The man “raised the gun to point it at the deputy and gunfire erupted,” Gautreaux said.
The man, who was injured, was transported to a hospital by paramedics, Gautreaux said.
The man’s condition was not available Thursday and his name is not being released until notification of his family, the sheriff said. Gautreaux also did not release the name of the deputy, who was not injured.
A second man who was with the shooting victim ran into a nearby apartment after the shooting, Gautreaux said.
The man ran through the apartment - in the Sherwood Forest Boulevard-Old Hammond Highway area - and jumped over a fence, snagging a piece of clothing, Gautreaux said.
Baton Rouge Police Department’s K-9 unit was searching the area late Thursday for that man, whom Gautreaux described as a dark-skinned black male, 5 feet, 11 inches tall, medium build, with dreadlocks and wearing black clothing.
Following protocol in shootings involving deputies, Baton Rouge police will be investigating this incident.
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