LATEST: After Mandeville officer killing, investigators work into night piecing together tragic scene

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Two Mandeville police officers were shot, one fatally, after a vehicle chase that ended at a busy intersection, authorities said.

The officers were shot after a vehicle chase, according to information Gov. John Bel Edwards received from State Police. Two suspects were taken into custody, Mandeville Police Chief Gerald Sticker said.

"It's a bad day for the Mandeville Police Department," a somber Sticker said at the news conference held at State Police Troop L headquarters, which is near where the incident unfolded.

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Sticker said the injured police officer was in a local hospital and expected to survive. St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith had said earlier that the injured officer apparently suffered a graze wound.

Sticker has not yet publicly identified the officers, but said he had made initial contact with the slain officer's family.

"We have a wife that's grieving. We have children that are grieving," Sticker said.

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Sticker said authorities do not believe at this time there are additional suspects. Sticker said State Police will be handling the investigation. The suspects are in State Police custody.

Trooper Dustin Dwight, a State Police spokesman, said troopers were called shortly before 2 p.m. to investigate an officer-involved shooting on La. 22 near U.S. 190.

Smith said the weapon used has been recovered.

One witness at the scene said the shooting happened across La. 22 from the Cafe Du Monde location on North Causeway Boulevard.

Causeway Boulevard in both directions was closed at the La. 22/U.S. 190 intersection for several hours, creating heavy traffic congetion that was felt across Mandeville.

Three vehicles, including a marked Mandeville police unit, were in a ditch near a fence on the off ramp off Causeway Boulevard near La. 22. One of the vehicles had a cover draped over it.

Investigators were also on the Causeway overpass over La. 22 at one point.

Missie Noel, who was on the nearby Beau Chene Golf Course for a golf tournament Friday, said the teams of golfers were ordered off the course and told to shelter in the golf clubhouse as police scoured the area.

She said the golfers were playing on the Oak Course and at one point a large number of police cars from various agencies -- Noel said seemed upwards of 20 -- sped into the Beau Chene subdivision's entrance off the West Frontage Road, which runs along Causeway Boulevard. She said officials with the tournament, which was sponsored by Shell, calmly told all the golfers and others on the course to head to the clubhouse, where they were locked in until around 3:15 p.m.

Sticker said the officer who died is the first Mandeville police officer to be killed in the line of duty in at least 50 years.

"My thoughts and prayers, and I'm sure all of our community, their thoughts and prayers, are with this officer's family," Sticker said. "And we just ask that you all just pray for us at this time."

Mandeville Mayor Donald Villere said the officers, as well as other first responders that serve the communty, had had lunch served to them earlier Friday during an event put on by the Mandeville Family Reunion organizers.

"And of course shortly after that this terrible tragedy happened in our city, which is known as one of the safest places to live," Villere said.

Based on reporting from Andrew Canulette and Faimon Roberts.

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