August 17th, 2012
01:57 PM ET

Police: 7 arrested in shooting of Louisiana deputy

Seven people have been arrested in connection with the shooting of a Louisiana police officer on Thursday, a state police official said Friday.

Five of the people arrested are in jail and two others remain hospitalized and are being treated for gunshot wounds, Louisiana State Police spokesperson Melissa Matey said.

The seven are charged in connection with the shooting of Deputy Michael Scott Boyington, the first of four deputies shot in related incidents on Thursday.

Boyington was shot and wounded in a parking lot at a steel plant in LaPlace, about 25 miles west of New Orleans, St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Mike Tregre said Thursday.

The related incident happened when deputies went to a nearby trailer park to investigate the first shooting and were ambushed by a man armed with what Tregre described as an assault rifle, he said. Two deputies were killed and one was wounded in that confrontation.

Tregre identified the dead as Deputies Brandon Nielsen, 34, and Jeremy Triche, 28. Nielsen was married with five children and Triche had a wife and a 2-year-old son, Tregre told reporters Thursday.

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  1. Don

    Asian-Americans in general are law-abiding, family-orientated and very hard working. These traits will eventually disqualify them from the Socialist dominated Democratic party. Already I have seen liberal descriptions of minorities as "Non-Asian minorities." (As the new Hispanic description as "Non-white Hispanics." )
    Eventually we will realize that our Marxist controlled government are in the process of making divisions between Asians, Hispanics, Whites and Blacks as a control mechanism.

    August 18, 2012 at 8:05 am | Report abuse |
  2. Hamsta

    Everyone excuse all the typos, CNN won't let my comments post if my phone is on mobile view. I have to hit view entire site and can't even see what I am typing.

    August 19, 2012 at 2:45 am | Report abuse |
  3. jOSE

    THERE ARE THOUSANDS OUT THERE LIKE THEM. TIME BOMBS WAITING TO GO OFF. BAD ECONOMY–NO JOBS-JOB OUTSOURCING-THOSE BAD ECONOMIC CONDITIONS PRODUCE PEOPLE LIKE THEM–HOLMES.

    I SAID IT BEFORE AND I'M GOING TO SAY IT AGAIN, IS JUST THE BEGINNING. YOU ARE GOING TO SEE MANY MORE SHOOTING LIKE THE ONES IN LOUISIINA-COLORADO.

    August 21, 2012 at 6:13 am | Report abuse |
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