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Anne Marie Schilly

Age : 65

Gender : Female

Race : White

Date : 09/01/2021

Location : Veterans Boulevard and Lisa Drive

City : Metairie

County : Jefferson Parish

State : Louisiana

Agency : Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office

Officer(s) :Brian Khars

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during mental health crisis

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 09/01/2021, 65-year-old Anne Schilly was shot and killed by Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Khars on Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie after an encounter with Sgt. Joseph Marcal and Khars developed into a police pursuit. Schilly’s children later filed a federal civil-rights and wrongful-death lawsuit challenging Khars’s use of deadly force and the deputies’ handling of their mother’s mental-health crisis.
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The encounter began in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, while Jefferson Parish utility workers were repairing a water main. Two workers flagged down Marcal and reported that Schilly had directed racial slurs at them and threatened to kill one or more workers. Marcal approached Schilly, who was sitting in an SUV. Khars arrived as backup.
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Khars recognized that Schilly appeared to be experiencing a mental-health crisis. He had crisis-intervention training and testified that he and Marcal decided they intended to place Schilly under an emergency mental-health hold for evaluation. Schilly had reportedly undergone numerous previous involuntary psychiatric commitments.
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Schilly refused Khars’s request for her driver’s license and rolled up her window. When Marcal attempted to open her door, Schilly began driving away. Marcal testified that the SUV struck and dragged him briefly before he fell away from it. Khars and Marcal then pursued Schilly in separate vehicles with emergency lights activated.
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The pursuit continued over several streets while traffic signals remained inoperative because of Hurricane Ida. Schilly eventually stopped in traffic on Veterans Memorial Boulevard. Marcal approached the driver’s side of her SUV on foot while Khars approached from behind with his gun drawn.
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Marcal stood near the front driver’s side of the SUV and repeatedly told Schilly to stop. According to the officers, Schilly began moving the SUV forward toward Marcal. Khars fired multiple rounds into the vehicle, killing her. Khars later testified that he fired because he believed Schilly was about to run over Marcal.
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Schilly’s children, Jade Schilly Dauterive and Tylere Schilly, disputed the justification for the shooting. In 2022, they sued Khars, Marcal and Sheriff Joseph Lopinto in federal court, alleging excessive force, failure to intervene, battery, negligence, wrongful death and survival claims. They argued that the deputies knew their mother was mentally ill and that Khars unnecessarily escalated a mental-health intervention into a fatal encounter.
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The family specifically disputed that Schilly posed an immediate threat requiring deadly force. Their case argued that Marcal was not directly in front of the SUV when Khars fired and that Khars could not reasonably have believed deadly force was necessary to protect him. They also alleged that Marcal should have intervened and redirected Khars toward the original plan of taking Schilly into protective custody for psychiatric evaluation.
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The lawsuit proceeded for more than three years. On 12/15/2025, U.S. District Judge Darrel James Papillion granted summary judgment to Khars, Marcal and Lopinto and dismissed the family’s claims with prejudice. The court concluded that Khars’s use of deadly force was objectively reasonable under the circumstances and that, because the shooting was not found unconstitutional, the failure-to-intervene claim against Marcal also failed.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Deputy Brian Khars was the sole officer who shot Anne Schilly. Sgt. Joseph Marcal participated in the initial encounter and pursuit and was the officer Khars said he was protecting when he fired. The federal litigation produced detailed sworn testimony from both officers concerning the encounter and Khars’s decision to shoot.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_politics/article_anne_marie_schilly_shooting

https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/article_deputy_dragged_schilly_racist

https://www.wdsu.com/article/anne-schilly-shooting-mental-health-crisis

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/jefferson-parish-deputy-dragged-anne-schilly

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/louisiana/laedce/2%3A2022cv03067/255960/51/