Kevin Daigle can be heard rifling through Louisiana State Police Trooper Steven Vincent’s pockets while yelling obscenities at him in video footage shown to jurors Sunday during the second day of testimony in the penalty phase of Daigle’s first-degree murder conviction. Daigle was convicted in 2019 of fatally shooting Vincent in the face when the officer tried to help him on the side of the road on Aug. 23, 2015.

“Oh, I need that. I need that,” Daigle can be heard saying as Vincent lays on the pavement next to his unit. “You still alive? You lucky bastard. You’re still going to die.”

The footage was presented in a dual-screen format showing both dash cam video from Vincent’s unit and footage from a GoPro camera that was attached to the dashboard of motorist Robert LeDoux’s Jeep. LeDoux is often referred to as “the Good Samaritan” by former State Police Superintendent Mike Edmonson for being the first person to stop and render aid to Vincent after the shooting.

LeDoux can be heard in the footage from Vincent’s unit screaming to Daigle, “Hands up, dude. Hands off, man,” as he exits his Jeep.

LeDoux testified on Saturday he took off running toward Daigle and tackled him to the ground with his left shoulder. He said he kept Daigle pinned to the ground with his face on the pavement until motorists from another passing vehicle stopped to help.

“I’ve got a state trooper down, bleeding out of the head,” LeDoux can then be heard saying on the video while using the radio from Vincent’s unit. “He’s out and he’s bleeding and he’s bubbling.”

The fellow motorists who helped LeDoux — Charlie Bercier and Sam Edmondson — can be heard screaming at Daigle not to move as they wait for authorities to arrive.

Repeatedly Daigle asks to be moved to the grass and off the pavement.

“You’re burning me,” he yells. “Oh it’s hell. It’s hot. Put me on the grass.” He later begs to be shot. “Please, please, just shoot me. Please.”

Cheryl Swearingen, a State Police forensic scientist within the firearms division, testified Sunday that the gun Daigle used to shoot Vincent was a shortened single-shot shotgun with a sawed-off barrel and buck stop, “which means the pellets fired disperse wider and faster” than when fired from a legal-length gun.

She said anywhere from 12 to 16 pellets from a single shotgun shell were fired at Vincent when Daigle pulled the trigger.

Paul Berry, chief technical officer of the State Police DNA crime lab, testified that blood from Blake Brewer, Daigle’s roommate, was also found on the muzzle and trigger of the same shotgun.

Calcasieu Parish Assistant District Attorney Charles Robinson on Saturday told jurors Daigle was on parole at the time of the shooting for his fourth felony arrest — arson for setting fire to his mother’s home — and had just come from killing Brewer when Vincent pulled over to offer Daigle assistance.

Court is in recess until 1 p.m.

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