{"id":105358,"date":"2024-04-29T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T12:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/three-police-officers-shot-in-louisiana-in-fatal-standoff-with-gunman-officials\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T12:03:25","slug":"three-police-officers-shot-in-louisiana-in-fatal-standoff-with-gunman-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/three-police-officers-shot-in-louisiana-in-fatal-standoff-with-gunman-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Three police officers shot in Louisiana in fatal standoff with gunman: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-29\/GETTYRF_82422_policeLightsday%20%2812%29.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Oliver Helbig\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Three police officers were wounded in a fatal standoff with a gunman in Louisiana on Sunday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Kenner Police were called to the 700 block of Farm Avenue at approximately 9:45 a.m. local time after two people were shot outside of a residence, according to a statement from Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto and Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley.<\/p>\n<p>The residence belonged to a family member of Michael Lathers, 31, who was wanted for an attempted murder and armed robbery that occurred earlier in the week in Kenner, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>In a standoff with Lathers, three Kenner police officers were wounded and Lathers was fatally shot by a Jefferson Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Multiple attempts were made to contact Lathers to open negotiations, but all efforts were unsuccessful,&#8221; Lopinto and Conley said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The wounded officers were transported to a local hospital and are in stable condition, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Lathers was pronounced dead on the scene, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Helbig\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Three police officers were wounded in a fatal standoff with a gunman in Louisiana on Sunday, officials said. Kenner Police were called to the 700 block of Farm Avenue at approximately 9:45 a.m. local time after two people were shot outside of a residence,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/three-police-officers-shot-in-louisiana-in-fatal-standoff-with-gunman-officials\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}