City Rocked By Terror Attack Suffers Loss Of Major Law Enforcement Official In Apparent Suicide: REPORT
Orleans Parish Assistant District Attorney Ian Kersting allegedly killed himself inside the district attorney’s office building Saturday night, according to WVUE.
Authorities found Kersting dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound around 9 p.m. Saturday in District Attorney Jason Williams’s staff offices, WVUE reported.
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Assistant District Attorney Ian Kersting (left) was found dead in the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office of an apparent suicide. This is a developing story. pic.twitter.com/ZbBXr3Uj0Q
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The 34-year-old was assigned to Orleans Parish’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI), an outfit which works in conjunction with New Orleans Police Department detectives to investigate and prosecute sex crimes using DNA evidence, according to the outlet.
“The Orleans Parish DA’s Office family suffered a terrible tragedy Saturday night,” Williams’s office said in a statement obtained by the outlet. “Assistant District Attorney Ian Kersting was a beloved member of our office, and we send our love and deepest condolences to his family,” the statement continued. (Read more from “City Rocked By Terror Attack Suffers Loss Of Major Law Enforcement Official In Apparent Suicide: REPORT” HERE)
