Injured Deputy Returns Home, Charges Lowered for Individual Accused of Hitting Him

  • After two months of being hospitalized, Sheriff Gerald A. Turlich, Jr. and PPSO welcomed Lieutenant Edmund Fisher home on August 9.
    After two months of being hospitalized, Sheriff Gerald A. Turlich, Jr. and PPSO welcomed Lieutenant Edmund Fisher home on August 9.
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  • Sheriff Turlich and PPSO welcomes home Lt. Fisher.
    Sheriff Turlich and PPSO welcomes home Lt. Fisher.
As Lieutenant Edmund Fisher—the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office (PPSO) deputy who was hospitalized due to being struck by an ATV on Tuesday, May 31—returned to his home after two months of hospitalization, the individual who struck the deputy, Reginald Hamilton, of New Orleans; had his charges lowered from Attempted Murder to Second Degree Battery. The decision to lessen the charges…

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