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Trooper who faced firing in Black man's death dies in crash

by Associated Press
| September 22, 2020 8:33 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana state trooper has died following a single-vehicle highway crash that happened just hours after he learned he would be fired for his role last year in the in-custody death of a Black man.

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