Killing of Jeffrey Doucet

On March 16, 1984, Leon Gary Plauché shot and killed Jeffrey Doucet, who had kidnapped and raped Plauché's son, Joseph Boyce "Jody" Plauché. Plauché shot Doucet as he was being escorted through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport by law enforcement to face trial, an event that was captured on camera by a local news crew. Plauché was given a seven-year suspended sentence with five years' probation and 300 more hours of community service, receiving no prison time. When he was questioned as to why he shot Doucet, Plauché contended that he was in the right for killing Doucet for sexually assaulting his son and that any parent in a similar position would have done the same thing, stating "If somebody did it to your kid, you'd do it too."