State Police is investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting in Lafayette. The deceased has been identified at 40-year old Jeremy Todd Baham of Lafayette. Trooper Thomas Gossen says the shooting happened Monday night on Kaliste Saloom Road.
“Officers were called to an apartment complex, in reference to a disturbance, a man with a weapon, when they arrived, they were confronted by a man with a weapon,” says Gossen.
Gossen says two officers approached Baham in the parking lot of an apartment complex and that’s when things got physical and took a turn.
“During that confrontation one of the officers was injured, the subject was shot and fatally wounded at the scene. That’s what’s being processed right now. State Police is conducting the investigation still, I know it’s still early on. As soon as we can we’ll get them to release some more information,” Gossen explained.
The officer involved in the incident received non-life-threatening injuries and Baham was pronounced dead at the scene by the Lafayette Parish Coroner’s Office.
