Authorities respond to hostage stand-off today

Sheriff’s deputies and state police swarmed into a trailer park on Rock Pit Road, just off Highway 13 south of Pine Prairie, after a neighbor called 911 shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday when a neighbor heard loud a loud argument and then gunshots. The stand-off ended when a state trooper shot and killed the hostage taker, according to a state police spokesman.
Some two dozen state police SUV units greatly outnumbered sheriff’s patrol units in and around the scene of the stand-off.
Nathan Massey barricaded his girlfriend inside a trailer, restraining her and trashing the trailer, said the victim’s older brother, Billy Mayer, at the scene of the standoff. He said the stand-off with police began sometime after 9 a.m. when 911 was called Thursday morning. However, Massey said he had been told the incident actually began about 4 a.m. Thursday, when Massey barricaded his girlfriend in the trailer bedroom and threatened to kill her.
Mayer said there had been three or four previous incidents when Massey became violent with his girlfriend, and that she asked to stay at other residences when that happened.
He said he saw his younger sister when she was taken from the trailer where the incident occurred. Mayer said the victim had a knot on her forehead and bruises on her legs. He said she was taken to Savoy Medical Center in Mamou in the early afternoon.
The hours-long stand-off also caused anxiety to family and neighbors who kept vigil as the hostage ordeal played out. Mayer said his father suffered a heard attack as he waited to find out how the hostage -- his daughter -- was doing. He was taken to Savoy Medical Center in Mamou, where his daughter also was taken. After Massey was shot, Mayer went to hospital to check on his father and sister.
Trooper Brooks David sid a trooper shot when Massey broke out a window and yelled that he was going to kill the woman hostage.