Residents waited somberly outside the Iberville Parish Courthouse Tuesday, with the flags at half-staff and two mobile blood collection trucks parked outside the entrance — the only indication that something tragic had happened there the night before.

They traded rumors and scraps of information as they stood in the grass, preparing to donate blood in honor of a deputy who was killed and a detective who was injured Monday night in a shooting at the courthouse.

“This isn’t us,” resident Kayla Garvin said. “This isn’t Iberville.”

One deputy was killed , and a detective was critically wounded, during a struggle with suspect Latrell Clark , who was being questioned in connection with a sex crimes investigation, according to the Louisiana State Police. Clark was also killed.

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