LSP releases body-cam video of fatal shooting

LSP releases body-cam video of fatal shooting
LSP releases body-cam video of fatal shooting
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Louisiana State Police have released body-cam video of a trooper’s fatal shooting of a driver in Ascension Parish that occurred on Sept. 30.

The video shows the moments leading up to–and after– a struggle between the unidentified trooper and the driver, 34-year-old Brandon Nicholas of Sunshine.

While the trooper claimed that he saw a pistol in Nicholas’s car, there was no gun found in the car after Nicholas was fatally shot. Instead, troopers said they found a gun in a ditch along the Louisiana Highway 431, between where the chase began and ended. That would be somewhere along a mile and a half stretch of dimly-lit highway, at about 2 a.m.

LSP Superintendent, Colonel Robert Hodges, said the investigation is “active” and he encouraged anyone with information about the incident to report it it.

You can see our report on the LSP video above, or you can watch the 10-minute LSP “Critical Incident Briefing Video” here.


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