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A Louisiana State Police dies Monday after authorities say he was shot in the head and then taunted when he stopped to provide aide to a man whose truck was stuck in a ditch............

SHREVEPORT, La. (August 6, 2015) — Police in northwest Louisiana say an officer has died after being shot while on duty, and a manhunt for a suspect is under way. Shreveport police spokesman Bill Goodin tells The Associated Press that investigators believe they know who the suspect is and are obtaining a warrant for his arrest.

Death of S/T Steven Vincent I am very saddened to report that Senior Trooper Steven Vincent has passed away this morning from the gunshot wounds he suffered yesterday in conjunction with a traffic investigation. As an organization, we are heartbroken over this senseless and tragic death. Our thoughts and prayers are with his surviving wife Katherine and his son Ethan as well as his entire extended family. ( Brothers, Tpr. Terrell Vincent and Chief Keith Vincent) Steven was proud to serve as a Louisiana State Trooper and we were proud to count him among our ranks. This loss exacts an...

Troubling revelation: Did our British allies sit on their hands in Iraq? Scandal over Britain's military echoes critique of murdered journalist Steven VincentBy David PaulinThree years ago this month, American freelance journalist Steven Vincent was kidnapped and murdered in Basra, Iraq, a port city then under British military control. His murder occurred as Britain's military – as Vincent had earlier reported -- was turning a blind eye to the rise of menacing Shiite religious groups, including those of bellicose rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr.Now, three years later, the ineptitude of British forces in Basra has boiled over into a full-fledged scandal...

A U.S. injustice to an invaluable Iraqi. The murder of freelance journalist Steven Vincent a year ago today made international headlines. Vincent was in Basra, completing research on his second book. He broke the story about Shia death squads; ironically, this may be what led to his death at their hands. Vincent was special. Many journalists parachuted into Iraq, talked to a handful of established contacts, and spent more time in the Green Zone than out and about. Their accounts might have been best-sellers, but they were riddled with mistakes and superficiality. Vincent’s first book In the Red Zone, in...

On August 2th Steven Vincent, reporter, blogger, and author of "In The Red Zone", was abducted in broad daylight in Basra and murdered by four men in police uniforms driving a police vehicle. His translator and guide, Nour (who had become a central character in his articles and posts) was also shot four times but survived. After his death, certain commentators who considered him too pro-Iraq Liberation, and some others whom Vincent had criticized for inaccuracies, gleefully speculated that "ignorant" Vincent had let himself be seen too close to Nour in public or was having an affair with her and...

Last August a hotel maid in Basra who had popped in to clean a room found the dead body of guest who had been staying there for almost a week. The dead man was Steven Vincent, a free-lance American journalist who was doing research for a book on the situation in southern Iraq. When the police examined the body and the scene it concluded that Vincent had been murdered. But who killed Vincent? A few days before his tragic death, the journalist had published an op-ed column in The New York Times charging that Iraqi Shiite parties had infiltrated the...

I thought you might like to see the email I sent Juan Cole in response to his August 8th post about my husband. Sorry if it runs a little long - "Was American journalist Steve Vincent killed in Basra as part of an honor killing? He was romantically involved with his Iraqi interpreter, who was shot 4 times. If her clan thought she was shaming them by appearing to be having an affair outside wedlock with an American male, they might well have decided to end it. In Mediterranean culture, a man's honor tends to be wrought up with his...

Mr. Cole - (I refuse to call you professor, because that would ennoble you. And please change the name of your blog to "Uninformed Comment", because that is precisely what the above paragraph is.) I would like to refute this shameful post against a dead man who can no longer defend himself against your scurrilous accusations, a dead man who also happened to be my husband. Steven Vincent and I were together for 23 years, married for 13 of them, and I think I know him a wee bit better than you do.

I thought you might like to see the email I sent Juan Cole in response to his August 8th post about my husband. Sorry if it runs a little long - "Was American journalist Steve Vincent killed in Basra as part of an honor killing? He was romantically involved with his Iraqi interpreter, who was shot 4 times. If her clan thought she was shaming them by appearing to be having an affair outside wedlock with an American male, they might well have decided to end it. In Mediterranean culture, a man's honor tends to be wrought up with his...

US reporter killed 'because he was to marry a Muslim' FRASER NELSON POLITICAL EDITOR AN American journalist who was shot dead in Basra last week was executed by Shiite extremists who knew he was intending to marry his Muslim interpreter, it has emerged. Steven Vincent was shot a week before the planned wedding to Nouriya Itais and had already delivered a $2,500 dowry to her family. The disclosure casts new light on the grip of Islamic religious sects in the British-run south- east of Iraq - raising concern that they will take control once troops start to withdraw. Mr Vincent...

Casualties of war. That phrase conjures up thoughts of the young drafted soldier who never returned to the farm he grew up on. It makes us think of generals ordering grand armies to sweep across plains or ships sunk by the cruel torpedoes of a submarine. "Casualties of war" never makes us think of art critics or filmmakers. Art critics almost never have anything to do with war except perhaps as protestors, and while filmmakers sometimes end up orchestrating battles and ordering actors to fake death, they are usually detached from actual combat.

Steven Vincent believed Iraqis wanted to live the American dream. His mistake cost him his life, reports Tony Allen-Mills After 10 years scratching a modest living as a freelance journalist specialising in contemporary art, Steven Vincent was tiring of the incestuous Manhattan gallery scene. In his mid-forties, he felt he should be doing something else with his life — perhaps something more topical, more relevant. He just wasn’t sure what. Then, like so many other New Yorkers, he awoke on September 11, 2001 to television images of the World Trade Center on fire. He rushed to the roof of his...

For much of his career, Mr. Vincent, 49, a freelance writer, had covered the art world, including museums, auction houses and the antiquities trade. But in September 2001, when he scrambled to the roof of his apartment building in the East Village and saw the second airliner strike the World Trade Center, "I saw the face of evil in that moment," he later told a friend.Mr. Vincent resolved to go to Iraq, where he lived a hardscrabble life in a $15-a-day hotel and wrote articles about what he regarded as Islamic fascism. He compared his two trips to Iraq to...

They killed Steven Vincent. Not, like Theo van Gogh - a man with loud and angry opinions who spoke against religions or people or ideas - but a journalist who only wanted to tell the truth; a journalist who, like me, spent most of his career writing about what was beautiful, about the great achievements of humanity, of civilization, the products of abstraction, of metaphor, of ideas. He wrote of those who challenged 'what is,' those who challenged beliefs, not with bombs but with paint and clay and marble. And when he himself challenged ideas, he did not use bullets....

The murdered journalist's work transcends ideology Early on Tuesday--the same day he would later be abducted and killed--I was thinking a lot about Steven Vincent, who bears the horrible honor of being "the first American reporter to be attacked and killed in the current Iraq war" according to The New York Times. Other journalists, noted the Times, had died in accidents or from other causes, but none had yet faced Steven's awful fate: His corpse, riddled with bullets and bound by plastic wire, was found on Wednesday morning. His translator, also kidnapped, was shot but not killed. Who could have...

Regretfully, another report of violence in Iraq doesn't surprise us. But when this brutality hits close to home it gives us pause, and it should. We are taken out of our protective mental cocoons and made to think, to think and consider those who face daily danger while assisting others regain basic necessities of life; to pause and pray for their safety and success. There is a second army in Iraq that we read and hear of only occasionally. It is a courageous group of workers striving to rebuild a country. Despite the danger, they are at work to restore...

Steven Vincent is murdered in pursuit of truth. "An Iraqi police lieutenant, who for obvious reasons asked to remain anonymous, confirmed to me the widespread rumors that a few police officers are perpetrating many of the hundreds of assassinations — mostly of former Baath Party members — that take place in Basra each month. He told me that there is even a sort of "death car": a white Toyota Mark II that glides through the city streets, carrying off-duty police officers in the pay of extremist religious groups to their next assignment." So wrote American freelance journalist Steven Vincent in...

NEW YORK (AP) - An American freelance journalist who was killed while reporting in Iraq had traveled without security as he toured the country writing about ordinary people struggling with the U.S. military presence. Steven Vincent, 49, had planned to return home by mid-August after completing reporting for a new book on the port city of Basra. He was abducted in that city on Tuesday and was found dead off a highway with gunshot wounds to his head. Vincent left for Iraq in the fall of 2003 to investigate the terror of daily life there. He paid his own way,...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An American freelance journalist was found dead in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday. Police said Steven Vincent had been shot multiple times after he and his Iraqi translator were abducted at gunpoint hours earlier. "I can confirm to you that officials in Basra have recovered the body of journalist Steven Vincent," said embassy spokesman Pete Mitchell. "The U.S. Embassy is working with British military and local Iraqi officials in Basra to determine who is responsible for the death of this journalist. Our condolences go out to the family." Iraqi police in...