Which one of you NELA baws shot at a Union Parish deputy today?

quote:

---

UPDATE: Union Parish shooting suspect in custody
By: Randall Newsome

UNION Parish - LATEST:

A quiet morning in a quiet neighborhood turns chaotic

The union parish sheriff's office got a lot more than they were expecting when they arrived at this trailer on buck drive.

Around 9 a.m. Union Parish came to serve an arrest warrant for Gary Sims Jr. He answered them with gunfire.

"The deputy at that point and time called for assistance deputies responded subject barricaded himself in the house an attempt was made to make contact with him he would not respond"

That's when they called for back up and a lot of it. Special units from the state police, Ouachita Parish and Monroe rushed to the scene.

"The sheriff's office called and said they needed some assistance so we sent our swat team along with several of our regular troopers to assist in the apprehension of the suspect"
Hoping to wait Sims out, talking wasn't working, police made a move to end the standoff.


"After several hours of negotiation an attempt was made to extract him from the house by deploying gas [and] several rounds of gas were shot into the house and he later came out the back door and was apprehended," Gates said.

State Trooper Michael Reichardt calls this one a win win. Everyone, including the Sims, walked away from the scene safely.

"The suspect is going to be taken to jail [and] that's how we want all these standoffs and barricaded suspects to end you know we don't want any fatalities," he said.

UPDATE (1:00 P.M. 4/11/17): KTVE/KARD has just received reports that the shooting suspect is in custody.

Gary Simms Jr. was arrested around 1:00 p.m. Tuesday after being surrounded by law enforcement since about 9:00 a.m.

---