STERLINGTON, La. (AP) – Louisiana State Police say a drunk driver plowed into a police car at a traffic stop in northeast Louisiana, killing one officer and injuring two others.
The wreck occurred early Sunday on Interstate 55 in the Ouachita (WASH-uh-tah) Parish town of Sterlington, about 220 miles northwest of New Orleans.
Trooper Michael Reichardt says in a news release that Sterlington Officer David Elahi was standing behind his car, interviewing someone who had been stopped, when an SUV hit him and his car.
Reichardt says 44-year-old Tracy Govan of Monroe was arrested on charges including vehicular homicide and vehicular negligent injury – killing or injuring someone by driving while drunk.
It was not clear whether Govan has an attorney.
Reichardt says in an email that the other two officers had minor injuries.