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The two Baton Rouge police officers involved in Tuesday's fatal shooting of Alton Sterling have been identified as Howie Lake II and Blane Salamoni. Four previous "use of force" complaints were ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — The two Baton Rouge police officers involved in Tuesday's fatal shooting of Alton Sterling have been identified as Howie Lake II and Blane Salamoni.

East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome is hopeful to find a replacement for Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul by this November.

Mr. Sterling, 37, a father of five, was fatally shot on July 5, 2016, after two Baton Rouge police officers, Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II, responded to a report that a Black man who was ...

The Baton Rouge Union of Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday evening. Officer Blane Salamoni was fired and Officer Howie Lake II was suspended in the death.

Alton Sterling’s five children will be paid $4.5 million by the city of Baton Rouge to settle a lawsuit brought after Baton Rouge police fatally shot Sterling in 2016.

BATON ROUGE, La. — A white Louisiana police officer who assisted in the arrest in which Alton Sterling was fatally shot has been dismissed from a wrongful death lawsuit.

Officer Howie Lake used a stun gun on Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, and helped wrestle him to the ground during the 2016 encounter in Baton Rouge but didn't fire his gun.

There was "absolutely nothing" Baton Rouge police officer Howie Lake II could have done to prevent fellow officer Blane Salamoni from fatally shooting Alton Sterling in 2016, Lake's attorney ...