Gary Plauche

On March 16, 1984, Leon Gary Plauché ( ; November 10, 1945 – October 20, 2014) shot and killed Jeffrey Paul Doucet ( ; February 3, 1959 – March 17, 1984), who had kidnapped and raped Plauché's son, Joseph Boyce "Jody" Plauché (born April 27, 1972). Plauché shot Doucet as he was being escorted through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport by law enforcement to face trial, an event that was captured on camera by a local news crew. Plauché was given a seven-year suspended sentence with five years' probation and 300 more hours of community service, receiving no prison time. When he was questioned as to why he shot Doucet, Plauché contended that he was in the right for killing Doucet for sexually assaulting his son and that any parent in a similar position would have done the same thing, stating "If somebody did it to your kid, you'd do it too." During 1983 and 1984, his eleven-year-old son Jody was taking karate lessons with 25-year-old instructor Jeffrey Doucet. Unbeknownst to Jody's parents, Doucet had been sexually abusing him for at least a year. On February 14, 1984, Doucet kidnapped Jody and took him to a motel in Anaheim, California, where he sexually assaulted him. Jody, the focus of a nationwide search, was found after Doucet allowed the boy to place a collect call to his mother from the motel. without incident.

As Doucet was escorted through the airport, he passed the news crew who were taping the scene. He then walked past Plauché, who aimed his weapon and fired at the right side of Doucet's head at close range. Doucet fell to the floor, bleeding from a wound near his right ear. Plauché placed the telephone receiver down before a police officer restrained him and removed the gun from his hand as the other attended to Doucet.

Plauché suffered a stroke in 2011.