Policeman shot to death and three women stabbed, one fatally, in Louisiana

Police firing tear gas stormed a grocery market in southwestern Louisiana on Wednesday to arrest a man accused of shooting a police officer to death and stabbing three women, one fatally, before barricading himself inside the store, authorities said.

The suspect, identified as Harrison Lee Wiley Jr., was captured about an hour after the violence began in the small town of Sunset, about 70 miles (112 km) west of the state capital, Baton Rouge, the St. Landry Parish Sheriff said.

Wiley is accused of stabbing his wife and two other women in a “domestic disturbance” then fatally shooting the officer who was the first to arrive on the scene, Sheriff Bobby Guidroz told reporters.

Wiley, described by responding officers as “highly intoxicated,” then jumped into an automobile and drove about three blocks before crashing the vehicle into a JR Food Mart, the sheriff said.