PLAQUEMINE — An Iberville Parish deputy hospitalized after a shooting that left a colleague dead no longer needs a ventilator to breathe and is improving, sources told WBRZ on Friday.
Brett Stassi Jr., the sheriff’s son, has been in intensive care since the Oct. 6 shooting in an interrogation room at the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Charles Riley was killed, as was a suspect in a sex crime investigation, Latrell Mikal Ornee Clark, 27.
Investigators say Clark was able to wrestle a gun away from one of the deputies after being told he would be arrested…