Death by Cop 2022-2024
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Tyron Coates
Gender : Male
Age : 23
Race : Black
Date : 01/23/2022
Location : 600 block of Pinhook Road
City : Lafayette
County : Lafayette Parish
State : Louisiana
Agency : Lafayette PD
Officer(s) :Not Disclosed
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Killed by police during traffic stop in allegedly stolen car
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
A Lafayette PD officer tried to stop a car they felt may be stolen. Police allege the driver pulled into a parking lot and fled on foot. Police and a K9 chased him until he jumped from a structure and fell to the ground. Officers attempted to taser him and tasered the K9 dog instead with the dog backing away, apparently unwilling to attack after being shocked. Police allege the man they had hunted down produced a gun and shot him to death. His mother, Tonya Coates, demanded transparency from law enforcement in her son Tyron Coates's death and demanded evidence of a gun. Police stated there had been a gun but did not provide bodycam or other evidence.
SOURCE LINKS :
https://www.klfy.com/lafayette-parish/officer-involved-shooting-leaves-one-dead
