BATON ROUGE, LA. (THECOUNT) — Shane Totty, a corporal with the Baton Rouge Police Department, has been identified as the victim killed in a Friday Old Jefferson, LA, motorcycle accident.
Totty, 31, who has recently survived a shooting while on duty last year, was killed in a deadly on-duty motorcycle crash while working a funeral procession on Friday.
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The Baton Rouge Police Department said on Facebook that the officer died from injuries he received in an on-duty crash late Friday afternoon.
Totty was a 4-year veteran of the BRPD.
According to police, Totty was escorting a funeral procession around 2:45 p.m. near Jones Creek and Tiger Bend roads on the border of East Baton Rouge Parish when a pickup truck pulled in front of his motorcycle and struck him., reports WWLTV.
He was taken to an area hospital, where he was confirmed to pass away from his injuries around 6 p.m.
Totty is the second motorcycle officer in the area to be struck and killed while escorting a funeral procession in the past months.
Geo quick facts: Old Jefferson is a census-designated place in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 6,980 at the 2010 census, up from 5,631 in 2000. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area – Wikipedia.