Another dead cop, another black person holding the gun -- Next day, two more cops shot

A 19-year-old suspect accused of killing a Louisiana sheriff's deputy faces four charges including first-degree murder Thursday, as a state reeling from that slaying learned that two more deputies were wounded in a separate incident.



The first shooting happened Wednesday when authorities say Jerman Neveaux shot a sheriff's deputy, David F. Michel Jr., three times in a New Orleans suburb in broad daylight and then escaped into the surrounding neighborhood. He was later captured.



The second happened early Thursday in northeast Louisiana when two deputies were shot trying to serve warrants. Both were in stable condition.



Neveaux faces four charges: first-degree murder, assault, battery on a police officer and resisting arrest.



Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said Wednesday that Neveaux shot Michel after Michel tried to search him. The sheriff said Neveaux was on probation and didn't want to go to jail if Michel found the weapon he was carrying.



"So he killed the deputy," Normand said. "What do you say about that?"



But Neveaux's grandmother Thursday accused authorities of beating up her grandson during his arrest. Yvette Neveaux told The Associated Press that hospital staff told family members Jerman Neveaux was being treated for broken ribs and a broken jaw.



"They beat him so bad," she said in a telephone interview. "They broke his ribs. They broke his jaw."



"He ain't but 95 pounds. He's a toothpick," she said.



Col. John Fortunato, a Jefferson Parish sheriff's office spokesman, said he had no details about how Neveaux was injured. He was checking to see if Neveaux was still at the hospital or had been taken to jail.



The sheriff said Neveaux was taken to the hospital Wednesday, suffering from a fractured eye socket and cuts and scrapes to his face.



Normand also said his office is investigating a video shown on local media of Neveaux's arrest. The video shows Neveaux "... being struck by our officers while attempting to gain control of Neveaux," the sheriff said. He said Neveaux was still armed at that time. Authorities are calling on the person who shot the video to come forward.