BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill into law that honors fallen law enforcement members with a memorial highway.

Sen. Rick Edmonds (R-La.) authored Act 43, which creates a memorial for the law enforcement officers who were killed in the 2016 ambush

The officers were identified as BRPD officers Montrell Jackson and Matthew Gerald and EBRSO deputies Brad Garafola and Nick Tullier.

According to the legislature, the new bill would commemorate a portion of Airline Highway in memory of the four officers. The portion of the road starting in front of 9607 Airline Highway and ending at 9000 Airline Highway will be renamed the “Jackson, Gerald, Garafola, Tullier Memorial Highway.”

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is responsible for mounting signage labeling the memorial roadway.

Edmonds’ bill also commemorates a portion of the I-10 in St. Tammany Parish, between Oak Harbor Boulevard overpass and the I-10 Twin Span Bridge, as the “Sgt. Grant Candies Memorial Highway.”

Candies was hit and killed by a suspect vehicle while deploying spike strips on I-10 near the Oak Harbor exit on March 23, 2025.

This bill goes into effect on Aug. 1, 2025.

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