Two Insurance Fraud Agents Killed
Louisiana's Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon confirms the deaths of two veteran insurance fraud agents yesterday afternoon. The two, Kim Sledge and Rhett Jeansonne were shot to death while serving a cease and desist order on a business owner in Ville Platte. The shooter, John Melvin Lavergne, was also found dead in his office of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.
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