On the night of February 5, 2000, Patrolman Burton James LeBlanc, a 30-year-old officer with seven years on the Jennings Police Department, was shot while responding to a reported medical emergency at a home on the 1600 block of North Cutting Street in Jennings, Louisiana. LeBlanc and two fellow officers went to the residence of retired Captain Kenneth Guidry and his wife, Christine, after a 911 call; the call had been mostly silent with sounds of moaning.

As the officers approached the carport door, a former Jennings officer, 52-year-old Phillip Lynn Karam, opened fire with a revolver. LeBlanc, not wearing a vest, was struck in the arm and chest and later died at a local hospital. The other two officers were wounded. Karam retreated into the backyard, engaged in a roughly two-hour standoff, then surrendered. Inside the house, Kenneth and Christine Guidry were found dead; Christine had made the 911 call as the events unfolded.

LeBlanc was survived by his wife and child. Does anyone have information about LeBlanc’s final call or remembers the responding officers that night?