Memorial set up in Harvey where JPSO deputy was shot and killed

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HARVEY, La. (WGNO) – The community has come together to honor fallen Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputy David Michel, Jr., with flowers, signs, and other remembrances being left at the site where Michel was shot and killed Wednesday. Michel, a Marrero resident who worked for JPSO’s Street Crimes Unit, was shot while trying to make a “pedestrian stop” on Manhattan Boulevard and Ascot Road. The suspect began fighting with Michel, then shot him three times during the altercation. Michel, 50, was pronounced dead at University Medical Center. The suspect, 19-year-old Jerman Neveaux, was apprehended after a nearly three-hour manhunt in the Pebble Walk neighborhood near the site of the fatal shooting. Sheriff Newell Normand said Michel was doing “proactive” police work and stopped Neveaux because he appeared to be following another person who was very nervous. When Michel grabbed Neveaux and pulled him to his vehicle to search him, Neveaux reportedly grabbed a gun from his waist, pulled it around his shoulder and shot Michel once in the back. As Michel fell to the ground, Neveaux shot him two more times in the back at point blank. Michel was pronounced dead at University Medical Center.