State Police schedule Monday news conference amid investigation into ambush of trooper who was not discovered for hours

BATON ROUGE – As Saturday’s chaos turned to grief, state police focused on two investigations: the violent rampage of the suspect who shot or attempted to shoot a handful of people, including state soldiers, in three communities, and the disturbing case of how A Soldier’s Corpse was left unattended all day.

LATEST NEWS: The state police will hold a press conference on the ambush on Monday. Watch the press conference live on WBRZ Ch 2 and WBRZ Plus. Stream the press conference here. The press conference is scheduled for noon.

Master Trooper Adam Gaubert was found dead on Saturday night while on patrol in a modest parking lot behind a bench on the corner of Airline Highway and Old Jefferson Highway. Gaubert is believed to have been shot hours before he was found – somewhere between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. – while a suspect was violent tirade through the parishes of Ascension, East Baton Rouge and Livingston.

Gaubert, a 19-year-old state police veteran and a US Army veteran, was a soldier who embodied the agency’s highest priorities, “honor, duty, selfless service and courage,” Col. Lamar Davis told the state police late one night -Press conference live in the WBRZ shortly before midnight.

WBRZ chief investigator Chris Nakamoto learned from sources that Gaubert was shot dead in an area less than 120 meters from the busy airline highway. Sources told Nakamoto that after hours of not hearing from Gaubert over the radio, a soldier was looking for him. Gaubert was found murdered behind the Capital One Bank at Airline and Old Jefferson. A strong police presence was detected in the bank’s parking lot before 6 p.m. on Saturday, more than 12 hours after the alleged attack on Gaubert.

When asked by the WBRZ about the schedule, Col. Davis of the Louisiana State Police was unable to provide any information late Saturday. He said the agency would “fully investigate all aspects of this incident”.

“We’re investigating [how Gaubert went unfound for so long]. There are some inconsistencies in information we’re trying to collect [and it’s all] It is currently being investigated, ”Davis said late Saturday evening in a press conference at the WBRZ.

Davis said the suspect in days of attacks in three communities and an exhaustive manhunt, Matthew Mire, ambushed Master Trooper Gaubert in his patrol unit.

Davis did not elaborate on his allegation, there was a breakdown of the details of what happened before and after the attack on Gaubert. He added that the agency is still piecing together the soldier’s and suspect’s activities, including how Gaubert may have been involved in responding to the first Ascension community crime scene that Mire is accused of, a woman killed and shot and injured a man.

Gaubert could have been one of the officers reacting to the situation. The state police “are investigating the role of Master Trooper Gaubert in” [responding to] the early morning murder, ”said the Colonel of the State Police.

Gaubert’s death was “pointless and tragic,” said Col. Davis.

“It’s a tough night, one of the toughest nights of my entire career. It hurts. But we’ll make it, ”added Davis.

Gaubert is one of only more than two dozen state police agents killed in 100 years of service. Visit the memorial page here.

Mire, the suspect, has been linked to the shooting of Master Trooper Gaubert, the death of a woman in Ascension Parish, the shooting and injury of a man in Ascension, and a double shooting that survived the victims in Livingston Parish. Mire was captured after a day-long manhunt near the intersection of Hoo Shoo Too Road with the Amite River and Bayou Manchac along the East Baton Rouge – Ascension line at around 10 a.m. Saturday night. Mire is also charged early Saturday for attempting to shoot another state trooper.