Those who remember 2016 know there's a culture of thugs who shoot cops in Baton Rouge.
Sadly, it happened again. A violent criminal shot two officers, killing one and seriously injuring the other.
The suspect stood over the dead officer and kept firing at him, according to the report.
Those officers have been identified as Sgt. Glenn Dale Hutto and Derrick Maglone. Maglone joined the Baton Rouge Police seven years ago and Hutto was a 21 year veteran.
Police in Baton Rouge, La., revealed grisly details Monday of a shooting standoff in which the suspected gunman ambushed two officers sent to interview him about a killing hours earlier, then allegedly stood over a dead officer’s body while continuing to shoot him at point-blank range.
Ronnie DeWayne Kato Jr., 36, engaged in a four-hour standoff with officers and SWAT team members on Sunday while he was barricaded in a house, investigators. One officer was killed while another remained in critical condition but was "doing a lot better," Sgt. L'Jean McKneely Jr., a spokesman for the Baton Rouge Police Department, told reporters Monday.
Earlier in the day, Kato allegedly ambushed his girlfriend of 18 years at her mother's house, kicked down the door and pistol-whipped her, according to an affidavit supporting the first warrant for Kato's arrest.
The girlfriend's mother stopped him before he entered the house, but he went back outside, retrieved a rifle and shot and killed a man at the house, who was one of five adults living there, detectives said. Police identified the man as Curtis Richardson, 58, news outlets reported.
Officers then went to the house for a "knock and talk" with Kato and tried to secure the backyard to prevent him from escaping, the second affidavit read.
Evidence, including what appeared to be close-contact wounds, indicated that Kato had stood over the dead officer's body and kept shooting him, the statement read.
Kato was arrested on two counts of murder, six counts of attempted murder, five counts of home invasion and one of aggravated battery.