Kevin Daigle

The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office says Kevin Daigle was booked Wednesday with second-degree murder in the death of 54-year-old Blake Brewer of Moss Bluff.

A news release says investigators believe the same shotgun was used to kill both Brewer and Senior Trooper Steven Vincent.

Daigle also was booked with stealing the truck that he had run into a ditch before Vincent found him Sunday, and with possessing a firearm after a felony conviction.

Some distant bystanders had waved Robert LeDoux over to the side of the road before he reached the scene and told him he shouldn't get any closer; it was too dangerous, they said, and the man had a gun of his own. LeDoux ignored them.

As he approached, the suspect told him, "'Everything's all right. Mind your own business. You need to go,'" LeDoux told The Associated Press a day later in an exclusive interview. "All I could see was pure evil in his eyes."

He says the truck that 54-year-old Kevin Daigle ran into a ditch, triggering the confrontation with the trooper, belonged to the Moss Bluff victim.

Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, 43, died at a hospital in Lake Charles after being shot in the head over the weekend by a man whose pickup truck was stuck sideways in a ditch, Col. Mike Edmonson said.

"This loss exacts an enormous emotional toll on the state police family, but we will do what is necessary and proper to honor Steve and support those who knew and loved him," Edmonson said in a statement Monday morning.