Three doctors agreed that Gad Ezekiel Black, the man indicted in the killing of Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Caleb Eisworth , is fit to stand trial.

And a Baton Rouge judge declared him competent to proceed Thursday morning during a hearing inside the 19th Judicial District Courthouse.

State prosecutors said they’ll likely pursue the death penalty against Black. The 41-year-old Baton Rouge man faces a first-degree murder indictment. He is accused of intentionally ramming his pickup truck into Eisworth’s motorcycle late the morning of June 16.

Eisworth was a decorated officer who spent 23 years on the police force and joined the department’s motorcycle patrol unit in 2008. Eisworth was heading to a work-related escort assignment when a driver, later determined to be Black, plowed into

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