SHREVEPORT, La. — A recently graduated Louisiana police officer has been fatally shot as she was leaving for work on the night shift.
Shreveport Police Chief Ben Raymond says Officer Chateri Payne had graduated from the police academy Nov. 16, and was shot outside a home Wednesday night. He couldn’t provide her age, or say whether the home was hers.
Raymond says a child was at the residence but he doesn’t know what, if anything, the child saw.
Speaking at a livestreamed news conference, Raymond said it’s too early to know the motive, and a witness detained for questioning Wednesday was not arrested.
He says police have some information about a suspect but nothing certain enough to release.
