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Corporal Segus Jolivette of the Lafayette Police Department lost his life during a hostage standoff in Jeanerette.
Segus Jolivette, a SWAT team member with Lafayette police, and three others were injured Thursday afternoon while assisting the Jeanerette Marshal’s Office and other area law enforcement agencies.
A police department spokesperson said two officers, including the deceased officer, were shot, and bullet fragments struck the other two officers.
The three injured officers are in good condition with non-life-threatening injuries.
The officer’s death is the first line-of-duty death the department has suffered since the fatal shooting in October 2017 of Cpl. Michael Middlebrook.
Segus Jolivette ( S.J) leaves behind a loving wife and 4 children.
A suspect is in custody and no longer a threat, Trooper Peggy Bourque, public information officer with Louisiana State Police Troop I, said Thursday evening.
Several news agencies, citing unnamed sources, identified the suspect as 31-year-old Nyjal Hurst.
Hurst, in 2014, then 21 years old and living in Jeanerette, was wanted for attempted first-degree murder in a drive-by shooting in the 300 block of Belle Place Oliveria Road, according to a news release from the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office.
He also was arrested in Lafayette Parish in July 2023 and indicted on felony charges of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine; possession of cocaine; possession of a firearm, a 9mm handgun, with obliterated serial number; possession of a weapon in the presence of a controlled dangerous substance; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; and the misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest.
Detectives with the Louisiana State Police Criminal Investigations Division were asked just after 4:30 p.m. Thursday to investigate the Jeanerette incident as an officer-involved shooting, Bourque said.
