Man Gets Probation for Killing Suspect in Son’s Sex Abuse
A father who shot a man suspected of abducting and sexually abusing his son was sentenced Tuesday to five years’ probation and ordered to perform community service work.
Judge Frank Saia, calling the shooting a tragedy, suspended a sentence of seven years at hard labor for Leon Gary Plauche, who pleaded no contest on May 16 to manslaughter in the death of Jeffrey Doucet.
Doucet, 25, was shot in the head at the Baton Rouge airport on March 16, 1984. At the time of the shooting, which was filmed by a television crew, sheriff’s deputies were escorting Doucet in handcuffs after returning him from California, where FBI agents had arrested him on a charge of kidnaping Plauche’s 11-year-old son.
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