Man Kills Self on Live TV After Killing Wife
A sheriff’s deputy shot his wife to death outside the courthouse where she had gone to divorce him Thursday, then took his own life as a TV station broadcast efforts by a friend and priest to get him to surrender.
Paul Broussard, 39, shot Andrea Baden Broussard, 26, at least five times inside a parking garage behind the Rapides Parish Courthouse, authorities said.
More than two hours later, after a friend, a priest and a police chaplain failed to convince Broussard to surrender, he put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. The act was broadcast live.
Friends in law enforcement rushed in as Broussard collapsed. A crowd of observers screamed and some cried.
The couple had been married for six years and had a 2-year-old daughter. He also had a 10-year-old child from a previous marriage.
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