A Louisiana police officer was shot and killed with his own gun by a suspect who also stabbed three people Wednesday afternoon.
Sunset Police Officer Henry Nelson was fatally shot around 3 p.m. after a struggle with his cousin, Harrison Lee Riley Jr., while investigating the stabbing of three people, according to The Advocate.
Shameka Johnson died of stab wounds while two others, including the suspect's wife, were injured.
St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said that Riley was taken into custody following a standoff three blocks away at the Sunset Mini Mart and was transported to a Lafayette hospital for treatment of possible gas burns and will be booked into St. Landry Parish jail upon his release.
After shooting the 51-year-old officer, the suspect then fled about to the nearby mini-mart and gas station, where he crashed his car into the market and holed up, triggering a standoff.
SWAT team members went into the store shortly before 6 p.m. and used tear gas to try to get Riley out. Three people were still inside the store when the suspect entered and all made it safely out.
Nelson was one of six officers with the Sunset Police Department and had served since 2002. Thursday was set to be his last day of work before a scheduled month-long vacation to visit a teenage daughter.
"Everybody in town loved him," Police Chief Luis Padilla told the newspaper, "He always had a smile. Even when he arrested someone, he had a smile."
Nelson is the sixth on-duty officer in Louisiana to have been shot and killed in the line of duty.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
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