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Police officer, 2 others shot in Louisiana town

Published August 26, 2015 Associated Press

SUNSET, La. – Louisiana State Police say a police officer and two other people have been shot in the southwestern Louisiana.

State police Superintendent Mike Edmonson says troopers are on the way to the scene in Sunset, about 70 miles west of Baton Rouge, after getting a call around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday.

Edmonson says the shooting reportedly took place near a convenience store. He says the officer was "responsive" but he has no details on the extent of the officer's injuries — or those of the other two people who were shot.

Tonette Thibodeaux of the Sunset police department confirms that an officer was shot but says she does not have any details.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/26...?intcmp=hplnws

Suspect who shot Sunset police officer alive, in custody; two others dead, two injured

WESTBROOK -- Acadian Ambulance is staged outside of the Sunset mini mart where three injured on Wednesday.



BY LANIE COOK AND RICHARD BURGESS| LCOOK@THEADVOCATE.COM RBURGESS@THEADVOCATE.COM

Aug. 26, 2015

Updated, 7 p.m.


A Sunset police officer was shot Wednesday afternoon by a man who then crashed his car into a mini-mart about three blocks from where he is alleged to have stabbed two people, St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said.

Acadian Ambulance officials reported that two people are dead and two were injured in the incident.

Information was not immediately available from authorities on who was killed, but one of the injured was apparently the suspect taken into custody.

Guidroz confirmed around 6:30 p.m. that the suspect in the shooting was alive and had been taken into custody. He was not injured except for possible gas burns and was taken to a Lafayette hospital for treatment, the sheriff said.

The suspect, who has not been identified by authorities, will be booked into St. Landry Parish jail upon his release, Guidroz said.

Police were seen hugging each other outside the mini-mart as emergency medical crews brought a stretcher up to the door, apparently loading the shooting suspect into an ambulance. Bystanders said they heard at least two gunshots.

Guidroz said the incident unfolded as a Sunset police officer responded to a report about 3 p.m. of two people being stabbed. The responding officer was shot, Guidroz said.

He said the suspect fled about three blocks away to the Sunset Mini Mart gas station where he crashed into the market and holed up. The SWAT team made entry shortly before 6 p.m., using tear gas to try to get him out.

Guidroz said three people were in the store when the suspect came in and all safely escaped. The suspect’s brother and a State Police negotiator were on the scene at one point trying to get the man to come out of the store.

The officer was airlifted to an area hospital but his condition was not immediately known. The conditions of the two people who were stabbed also were not immediately known. Acadian Ambulance reported that eight ambulances and three helicopters responded to the scene off of Martin Luther King Drive near Interstate 49.

Advocate staff writers Maya Lau and Danielle Maddox contributed to this report.

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Sunset assailant identified

8:12 p.m. CDT August 26, 2015


(Photo: Paul Kieu, The Advertiser)

UPDATE 7:55 p.m.
Suspect's name is Harrison Riley, according to Grand Coteau's interim mayor Shaterral Johnson, whose sister was killed. According to Johnson, the man who attacked her sisters was possibly under the influence of drugs.
Meanwhile, a fire that started at the Sunset Mini Mart has been extinguished.

UPDATE 7:15 p.m.
Several posts on the Facebook page of Sunset police officer Henry Nelson are expressing condolences and seem to indicate he may have been the officer shot in Sunset.
"I am without words, my godfathers life taken away in the line of duty. Rest in Gods Love," Adam Edmond posted around

6:45 p.m.
Facebook screengrab (Photo: Facebook)

Menyon Lee posted around 6:15 p.m., "Rip to my big cousin died in the line of duty. Henry Nelson u will be truly missed, what has this community come to Omg! Jesus please help our community!!!"
Nelson ran for Sunset Police Chief in 2014.

UPDATE 7 p.m.
The suspect in the Sunset shooting and stabbing probably will be charged with attempted first-degree murder of a police officer and attempted first-degree murder, St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said in a news conference.
The charges depend on whether the injured survive.
When asked about the charges, Guidroz at first said the suspect would be charged with the first-degree murder of a police officer, then corrected himself when a news reporter questioned the statement.
A Sunset police officer was shot Wednesday afternoon when he responded to a stabbing at 121 Anne St. Guidroz could not say what his condition is.
Two people were stabbed. One of them, Shamika Johnson of Sunset, was killed, according to KLFY TV-10.
CLICK HERE: Periscope video Sunset news conference

UPDATE 6:40 p.m.
Shamika Johnson of Sunset was killed Wednesday afternoon, according to KLFY TV-10.
She was one of two people stabbed at 121 Anne St. A Sunset police officer who responded to the stabbing was shot. His condition is unknown. The names of the other victims have not yet been released.

Acadian Ambulance tweeted that two people were killed and two were injured in the incident.

Acadian is transporting the suspect to an area hospital. No other patients. 1 unit will remain on scene. 2 dead and 2 injured
— Acadian Companies (@AcadianNews) August 26, 2015

The suspect, whose name is not being released at this time, has a criminal history, St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said.
The suspect is not seriously injured, but suffered burns and irritation to his face and eyes from tear gas. He is being assisted by Acadian Ambulance, will be taken to a Lafayette hospital for treatment, then booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center, Guidroz said.
Law enforcement officers "had to go in with tear gas, C gas, hammers and firemen's axes" to breach an office door inside a convenience store.
"He was not coming out. He was ready to fight," Guidroz said, adding that the suspect resisted.

UPDATE 6:30 p.m.
According to St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz, the suspect has been taken into custody.
UPDATE 6 p.m.
Two people were stabbed and a Sunset police officer was shot, allegedly by the same person, St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said.
The suspect, whose name is not being released, is barricaded inside the office of the JR Exxon station and convenience store in Sunset.
"We hear him coughing and sneezing. The tear gas is eating him up," Guidroz said.
A police negotiate and a family member of the suspect are on the scene.The St. Landry Parish SWAT team is going to try to break down the door, which has a metal bar across it, he said.
“People are shocked. They are just shocked. They see it on the T.V., they read it in the paper, but it’s here. It’s here in our Sunset, Louisiana,” Sen. Elbert Guillory said. “People are in such disbelief.”
The incident began around 3 p.m. on Anne Street in Sunset. The suspect allegedly stabbed two people, according to Guidroz. A Sunset police officer responding to the stabbing was shot.
The names of the injured, including the police officer, are not being released at this time.
The suspect then allegedly drove three blocks to the Exxon station and drove through the front of the store. Three people -- the owner, a cook and a customer -- were inside but got out safely, Guidroz said.
There are no hostages at this point.
Lafayette General Health spokesman Daryl Cetnar has confirmed one victim was transported via ambulance and is in critical condition.

UPDATE 5:40 p.m.
Louisiana State Police confirm to ABC three people shot in Sunset including police officer who is being airlifted to hospital.
State Sen. Elbert Guillory, R-Opelousas, a reserve officer, told KATC-TV the incident in Sunset began as a domestic disturbance and at least one person was stabbed an a responding officer was shot. There may be one more shooting victim, he said.
Law enforcement officials say multiple people, including an officer, have been shot in Sunset. There is no word yet on the extent of injuries.
Acadian Ambulance says Air Med has transported one patient; a total of eight ambulances and three helicopters responded to the scene so far. State Police are on the scene and say the SWAT team is surrounding a store on Anna Street.
An Instagram photo uploaded in Sunset apparently depicts the scene in Sunset. The photo shows a vehicle inside a store and shows a body lying on the ground. The user says the suspect ran people over, ran his car into a store and "in the store with a shotgun looking like Rambo."

UPDATE 5:25 p.m.
State police have confirmed that a Sunset police officer is among three people shot in Sunset.
On Napoleon Avenue in Sunset, dozens of law enforcement personnel and ambulances responded to the J Mart convenience store around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. At least four people were inside when the situation began.
State Police Superintendent Mike Edmonson said the officer was “responsive” but he has no details on the extent of the officer’s injuries — or those of the other two people who were shot.
Reports indicate as many as eight people may be held hostage.
Law enforcement personnel are communicating with the suspect. The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Department and Louisiana State Police have approached the scene in full-body armor, including helmets, camouflage and automatic weapons.

EARLIER
There are multiple reports of several people shot including a police officer at the J Mart near Anna and Napoleon streets in Sunset.
Acadian Ambulance has dispatched several units including AirMed to the scene.
Unconfirmed reports are that three individuals were taken to area hospitals.
We will update the story as more information is obtained.
We will update the story as more information is obtained.

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The Latest: Police Chief: Officer, Accused Man Are Cousins

SUNSET, La. — Aug 27, 2015, 12:20 AM ET
By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press

The latest on a police officer being shot and three people being stabbed in Sunset, La. (all times are local).
10:30 p.m.

A Louisiana police chief says a police officer responding to a domestic call was a cousin of the man accused of shooting him.

Police Chief Luis Padilla (puh-DEE-yuh) says Sunset Officer Henry Nelson, 51, was killed by Harrison Lee Riley Jr. on his last workday before a month's vacation. He'd planned to spend it with his teenage daughter, who lives out of town. Padilla says he doesn't know where she lives.

Padilla says Nelson was outgoing, friendly and always smiling.

St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz (GEE-droh) says Nelson was shot, apparently with his own weapon, when he answered a call about a stabbing.

Guidroz says Riley then drove from the house and ran his car into a store where he barricaded himself.

Authorities say 35-year-old Riley will be booked with first-degree murder in the deaths of Nelson and 40-year-old Shameka Johnson, and with attempted first-degree murders of his wife, Courtney Jolivette Riley, and Johnson's 34-year-old sister, Shurlay Johnson.

Guidroz says Riley has an extensive criminal record.
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9:29 p.m.
St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz (GEE-droh) says one woman is in critical condition and another in stable condition after bloody attacks that killed a third woman and a police officer.
The sheriff says 34-year-old Shurlay Johnson is in critical condition and Courtney Jolivette Riley is in stable condition.
Riley's husband, 35-year-old Harrison Lee Riley Jr., is under arrest at a hospital. Guidroz says Riley is being held for observation after complaining of a hurt rib.
Guidroz says Riley, who has an extensive criminal record, is accused of stabbing both women and Johnson's 40-year-old sister, Shameka Johnson, who died at the house, and of fatally shooting Sunset police Officer Henry Nelson before driving into a store a few blocks away and barricading himself inside.
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8:45 p.m.
When an alleged gunman crashed his car into a convenience store, the store owners' 15-year-old daughter was in the office doing homework.
High-school sophomore Nini Truong says a man covered with blood got out of the car. She says people were trying to escape and the man "was shoving people around, asking where my dad was."
St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz (GEE-droh) says 35-year-old Harrison Lee Riley Jr. is accused of fatally shooting 51-year-old Officer Henry Nelson and fatally stabbing 40-year-old Shameka Johnson. Johnson's sister, 34-year-old Shurlay Johnson, and Courtney Jolivette Riley, the wife of the man who is accused in the attacks, were also stabbed. Her age in not known.
Guidroz says Riley then drove from the house and ran his car into a store where he barricaded himself.
Truong says her parents were not in the store, and the man went into an office and closed the door.
Truong says she did not see any weapons.
She says, "I was just wondering what he wanted to do with my dad."
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8:30 p.m.
A sheriff says two people are dead in southwest Louisiana, including a police officer responding to a domestic dispute.
St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz (GEE-drohz) identifies the victims as 51-year-old Officer Henry Nelson and 40-year-old Shameka Johnson. He says two other women also were stabbed: Johnson's sister, 34-year-old Shurlay Johnson, and Courtney Jolivette Riley, the wife of the man who is accused in the attacks.
He says 35-year-old Harrison Lee Riley Jr. drove from the house and ran his car into a store where he barricaded himself.
Guidroz says Riley has an extensive criminal record.
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8 p.m.
The convenience store where a man barricaded himself after allegedly shooting a Sunset police officer, erupted in flames, but firefighters arrived at the scene and quickly extinguished the blaze. Black smoke poured from the building.
The car the alleged shooter drove into the building was still parked just inside the store, with remnants of the front, glass doors crashed in.
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6:50 p.m.
St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz tells news outlets that a man is in custody after allegedly stabbing two people and shooting a police officer who responded in southwest Louisiana.
Guidroz did not identify the man, who drove his car into a nearby convenience store in Sunset, about 70 miles west of Baton Rouge, and barricaded himself inside. The sheriff says officers threw in tear gas and then stormed the JR Food Mart when the man refused to come out.
There was no word on the conditions of the officer or the two people who were stabbed.
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6:10 p.m.
St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobbie Guidroz says two people were stabbed and a police officer was shot when he responded to the stabbing in the southwest Louisiana town of Sunset.
Guidroz tells KLFY-TV ( http://bit.ly/1hGVbJs ) the gunman then drove his car into a nearby convenience store and barricaded himself inside.
He says all three people in the store got out safely.
Guidroz says the SWAT team used tear gas, but the gunman would not come out. He says the man's brother was trying unsuccessfully to negotiate with him.
Lena Truong tells KATC-TV (http://bit.ly/1U77oIx) the man ran into the store and pointed a gun at her sister, Nini Truong, and asked where her father was. She says her sister told the man that her father wasn't there.
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5:15 p.m.
Louisiana State Police say a police officer and two other people have been shot in the southwestern Louisiana.
State police Superintendent Mike Edmonson says troopers are on the way to the scene in Sunset, about 70 miles west of Baton Rouge, after getting a call around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday.
Edmonson says the shooting reportedly took place near a convenience store. He says the officer was "responsive" but he has no details on the extent of the officer's injuries — or those of the other two people who were shot.
Tonette Thibodeaux of the Sunset police department confirms that an officer was shot but says she does not have any details.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/l...aught-33344596

This proves that regardless of how many gun control laws are passed the bad guys will have guns because they don't obey laws int the first place. This habitual criminal had been in the possession of a stolen gun before this incident.

Sunset homicide victims identified

Claire Taylor, ctaylor@gannett.com
11:24 p.m. CDT August 26, 2015

A Sunset woman was stabbed to death Wednesday and a police officer responding to the stabbing was shot and killed in an incident that began at an Anne Street home and ended with the arrest of a suspect identified as Harrison Lee Riley Jr., 35, who was living in Arnaudville.

St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said three people were stabbed at 121 Anne St. in Sunset around 3 p.m. Wednesday. One of them, Shameka Johnson, 40, of Sunset, died from the injuries, according to Guidroz.

She is the sister of Shaterral Johnson, the interim mayor of Grand Coteau. Another sister of the mayor, Surlay Johnson, 34, also was stabbed and was in critical condition Wednesday night at Lafayette General Medical Center, Guidroz said.
Guidroz said Sunset Police Officer Henry Nelson, 52, was shot and killed when he responded to the incident.
Nelson ran for Sunset Police Chief in 2014.


Dozens of law enforcement personnel and paramedics responded Wednesday to a standoff with the suspect in two stabbings and the shooting death of a Sunset police officer. The suspect lived. (Photo: Freddie Herpin, Daily World)


The suspect's wife, Courtney Jolivette, was also stabbed in the incident. She was taken to Alexandria Medical Center, where she was undergoing surgery.

Police officers said the suspect appeared to be high on drugs, according to Guidroz.

After the stabbing and shooting on Anne Street, the suspect drove three blocks to JR Food Mart and service station and drove his car through the front of the store, Guidroz said.

Melanie Monroe, a store cashier, told The Daily Advertiser that Riley was a regular customer who knows the store’s owner. She said Riley was naked when he got out of the car and asked for the owner.

“I told him he wasn’t here and he asked, ‘Are you sure?’” she said.

Monroe, the owner and a customer escaped and the suspect barricaded himself inside an office, Guidroz said. Despite early reports, no hostages were taken.

CLICK HERE: Periscope video Sunset news conference

Police used tear gas to try to flush the suspect out. A police negotiator and the suspect's brother also tried to talk him out, Guidroz said.


Squad cars and ambulances converge at Duffy and Napoleon Avenues in Sunset during a standoff with an armed suspect Wednesday. (Photo: Freddie Herpin, Daily World)

Law enforcement officers "had to go in with tear gas, C gas, hammers and firemen's axes" to breach the office door inside the store. "He was not coming out. He was ready to fight," Guidroz said, adding the suspect resisted.

The suspect, who has an extensive criminal history, was taken to a Lafayette hospital, Guidroz said.

By 8 p.m., the store was reportedly on fire. However, it was extinguished shortly after.

Riley has a long criminal history dating back to 1997 with arrests in Orleans Parish, Houston and St. Landry Parish, KATC reported.

He has been arrested at least 14 times, including twice this year. Most recently, he was arrested in Opelousas on drug charges. He allegedly had methadone, crack cocaine and morphine in his possession and used them in front of a child under 17, according to court records.

In January, he was arrested for illegal carrying of weapons and illegal possession of a stolen firearm in Iberville Parish.

Riley's first arrest happened just a few months after his 17th birthday in Orleans Parish for possession of a stolen automobile and flight from an officer. He would be arrested six times more times Orleans Parish from 1997 to 2004 for flight from an officer, drug charges, illegal possession of stolen things and robbery.

It does not appear that Riley has ever been convicted in Louisiana, but spent at least 10 years in Texas prisons for crimes in Harris County, the Houston area.

Riley was arrested six times in Texas from 2000 to 2004, according to court records. His arrests include burglary of a vehicle, assault on a public servant, possession of marijuana, failure to identify fugitive, aggravated robbery with a dangerous weapon and resisting arrest.

He spent three years in a Texas prison for a 2000 assault on a public servant, a police officer, according to court records. He was then convicted for aggravated robbery with a dangerous weapon in Harris County in 2006 and sentenced to seven years in prison.

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KATC story:

Posted: Aug 26, 2015 9:18 PM CDTUpdated: Aug 26, 2015 9:35 PM CDT

Suspect in Sunset standoff has criminal history

The suspect in a Sunset incident that left two dead and two injured has a long criminal history dating back to 1997 with arrests in Orleans Parish, Houston and St. Landry Parish.

Harrison Lee Riley, 35, has been arrested at least 14 times, including twice this year. Most recently, he was arrested in Opelousas on drug charges. He allegedly had methadone, crack cocaine and morphine in his possession and used them in front of a child under 17, according to court records.

In January, he was arrested for illegal carrying of weapons and illegal possession of a stolen firearm in Iberville Parish.
Riley's first arrest happened just a few months after his 17th birthday in Orleans Parish for possession of a stolen automobile and flight from an officer. He would be arrested six times more times Orleans Parish from 1997 to 2004 for flight from an officer, drug charges, illegal possession of stolen things and robbery.

It does not appear that Riley has ever been convicted in Louisiana, but spent at least 10 years in Texas prisons for crimes in Harris County, the Houston area.

Riley was arrested six times in Texas from 2000 to 2004, according to court records. His arrests include burglary of a vehicle, assault on a public servant, possession of marijuana, failure to identify fugitive, aggravated robbery with a dangerous weapon and resisting arrest.

He spent three years in a Texas prison for a 2000 assault on a public servant, a police officer, according to court records. He was then convicted for aggravated robbery with a dangerous weapon in Harris County in 2006 and sentenced to seven years in prison.

http://www.katc.com/story/29888860/s...iminal-history