Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A Louisiana police officer was shot and killed Friday when he stopped on his way home to help in what he thought was a traffic crash, but was actually a domestic violence incident, police said.
Westwego Police Officer Michael Louviere, 26, discovered a woman on the ground in an intersection near a crashed car. A suspect then came up behind him and shot him in the head about 6:30 a.m., police said. Suspect Sylvester Holt was taken into custody hours later after he shot himself in the chest in a 7-hour standoff on the Crescent City Connection bridge, investigators said. Holt remains in critical condition.