Kevin Daigle was sentenced to death in October for the 2015 fatal shooting of Louisiana State Police Trooper Steven Vincent.

After one hour of deliberations three months earlier, the jurors in the penalty phase of Daigle’s first-degree murder conviction unanimously agreed to the death penalty sentence, later ordered by Judge Clayton Davis.

Daigle is “an animal,” Calcasieu Parish District Attorney Stephen Dwight said after the sentencing.

“What he did on that day was horrible and horrific, and this is the proper justice,” he said. “He is an evil person and the death penalty is made for this exact scenario.”

Vincent was responding to a report of a drunken driver on Aug. 23, 2015, when he approached the parked truck in which Daigle had been driving near the corner of La. 14 and Fruge Road in the Hayes area.

“Trooper Vincent’s last words were, ‘We’ll call the tow truck, get the truck out and maybe I’ll give you a ride,’ ” Calcasieu Parish Assistant District Attorney Charles Robinson said. “He couldn’t see that Daigle had moved a sawed-off shotgun into his lap and was going to shove it right in his face.”

He “ambushed him in cold blood for no good reason,” Robinson said. “He ruined and then made miserable the final moments of Trooper Vincent’s life.”

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 his roommate, Blake Brewer, when Vincent pulled him over.

After shooting the trooper, Daigle can be heard rifling through Vincent’s pockets while yelling obscenities at him in video footage that was shown to jurors.

“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.”

Robert LeDoux, 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, testified when he drove up to the scene of the attack, he saw a person laying on the ground and a man standing over him.

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

A former volunteer firefighter, LeDoux said the motorists — Charlie Bercier and Sam Edmondson — kept Daigle on the ground while he rendered aid to Vincent.

Vincent died the next day at a Lake Charles hospital.

After the sentencing, Daigle was transported back to Louisiana State Penitentiary-Angola.

Dwight said his office will “continue to fight every step of the way” as Daigle’s defense team begins the appeals process.