GONZALES, LA: Off-duty officer suspended after gun discharges in strip club restroom

GONZALES, LA (WAFB) –

An ordinary evening of work for a few employees in Gonzales quickly became a terrifying experience one night in March.

“Well basically I just heard a really big bang,” said one employee, who asked not to be identified.

That employee describes what happened in the early morning hours of March 13 at the Crazy Horse Cabaret. The employee, like her coworkers on shift that night, gave statements to the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office.

One statement reads, “I heard a loud shot sound. After the shot I immediately smelled a faint smell of gun powder.”

Another states, “I saw Chase Delatte walking out of the bathroom to the table he was sitting at before.”

And yet another, “I went into the men’s restroom where I saw the bullet casing on the floor and a hole in the door.”

According to the sheriff’s report, Chase Delatte is Gonzales police officer and when tracked down at his home later that morning, he told investigators his gun accidentally discharged while he was in the bathroom. The report also describes Delatte’s appearance, saying, “Delatte was cooperative while speaking with him but a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was emitting from his facial area.”

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According to Jackson this is the first incident involving Delatte where discipline was required but an I-Team investigation in February 2012, revealed he was in a speeding vehicle along with Chief Jackson and other off-duty officers when the driver refused to pull over leading responding Gonzales police officers on a low speed chase through town eventually stopping at police headquarters. According to the report written by the responding officer, Delatte exited the vehicle and told the officer quote, “Man y’all ain’t got no life.”

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