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The child died at the cemetery Wednesday in St. James Parish,
while the man was transported to a hospital but later died of
his injuries, WAFB-TV reported.
The St. James Parish Sheriff's Office responded to a call about
2 p.m. Wednesday at a home in Paulina. Deputies were asked to be
there as the man retrieved belongings from the home, but the man
never showed up. A woman called the sheriff's office again,
asking for a deputy to perform a welfare check, because the man
was traveling in an unknown area with their child. The woman had
received earlier threats from the man about harming himself and
the child, investigators said.
About an hour later, around 5 p.m., Ascension Parish Sheriff’s
Office deputies spotted the man after getting a call from the
child’s mother who had been tracking the vehicle. Ascension
Parish deputies and officers from the Gonzales Police Department
began a pursuit, which eventually entered into St. James Parish,
where authorities said the man pulled into a cemetery and fired
the shots.
The driver's name and that of the child have not been released.
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