Ahead of plea change, reduced charge for ex-New Orleans cop
NEW ORLEANS — Federal felony charges for the lone remaining defendant in the cover-up of deadly shootings by New Orleans police following Hurricane Katrina were reduced to a single misdemeanor Thursday.
The new charge was filed a day before the scheduled change-of-plea hearing for retired Sgt. Gerard Dugue.
The decade-old case involved shootings that killed two unarmed people and wounded four at New Orleans’ Danziger bridge six days after levees failed in the 2005 storm, inundating the city.