Marshall Waters Jr., 49, was a part-time police officer and full-time EMT from Mangham, Louisiana who died after being shot during a traffic stop on October 17, 2020. He had been policing Highway 425 near the Franklin–Richland Parish line when he stopped a vehicle reported stolen after an armed robbery at a Rayville pharmacy. As he approached, the driver, Hermandus Dashanski Semien, fired a single shot that struck Waters in the abdomen below his protective vest and severely injured his femoral artery.

Waters survived the initial shooting and spent several weeks in the hospital but died of his wounds on November 5, 2020. The shooter fled but was captured in Franklin Parish hours after the incident and was charged with armed robbery, theft of a motor vehicle, and attempted first-degree murder of a police officer. The community remembered Waters for six years of service as an officer and his work as a paramedic.

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