This child of a mother was high on "Wet" (formaldehyde and cocaine) and was beating his girlfriend in her backyard in front of her children. He had a gaping wound on his arm from punching out a window.
A neighbor who heard the girl screaming for her life called police.
That's when THE BAD GUYS SHOWED UP.
They pepper sprayed the future president of the United States and wrestled with him to try and get the cuffs on him. When he was finally subdued he looked like his face was covered in Nestle's Quik. Dirt was in his eyes, nose and mouth. Who knows if it was the WET, the dirt, the pepper spray or just luck on our part, but Keenan Ardoin was no more. He died in the amberlamps.
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Details from neighbors, girlfriend and police on Ville Platte man killed after police run-in
A Ville Platte man is dead after an incident involving police. State Police have now taken over the investigation.
State Police said Ville Platte Police were called to a domestic dispute Thursday around 12:45 a.m. in the 100 block of East Oak Street. Officers say the dispute was between 24-year-old Keenan Ardoin and his girlfriend.
"We were in the room and he started arguing and stuff. He punched a window and cut his arm," Ardoin's girlfriend Sheene Williams said.
That's when Williams said she ran into the backyard to get away.
"He caught me and we fell down and then he beat on me," Ardoin said.
A neighbor who heard Williams' screams called police.
"I really called because the kids were right there and the little boy was trying to get the man off his mama, that's hard to see," neighbor Nathan Skinner said.
[ What excuse is that to call out the maddog killer police? ]
State Police said four Ville Platte officers arrived and pepper sprayed Ardoin. Williams said they pepper sprayed her as well and moved her away from the scene.
"They brought me to the front of the house so I didn't see anything else from there," Williams said.
State Police said the officers struggled with Ardoin on the ground until they were able to handcuff him.
"He had dirt in his eye balls and his nose and his mouth. They had his head in the dirt," Williams said.
Williams said Ardoin was screaming for 5-10 minutes during the scuffle with police. When asked if Ardoin was screaming any words about suffocation or pain she said no, he was just screaming.
When Ardoin was on the ground, officers said they noticed a cut on his arm and called an ambulance as a precaution. Moments later, police said Ardoin was unresponsive and then he was dead. It's not clear if he died at the scene or in the ambulance.
"When they get onto a scene they are suppose to have the cameras, only one [officer] had a camera on him," Ardoin's mother Alanda Wyatt said.
Wyatt said the Ville Platte police chief told her this information. When KATC asked State Police, they said they couldn't confirm that information at the time.
Wyatt also admits her son was on cocaine and embalming fluid, also known as a drug called "wet," before the incident with police, but believes the situation was taken out of hand.
"The drugs are not the problem, it's what they did to my child," Wyatt said.
State Police said Ardoin's body has been taken to the Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office and the cause of death is under investigation.
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