Gary Plauché

Leon Gary Plauché (/ploʊˈʃeɪ/ ploh-SHAY; November 10, 1945 – October 20, 2014) was an American man known for publicly killing Jeffrey Doucet (/ˈduːsɛt/ DOO-set; February 3, 1959 – March 17, 1984), a child molester who had kidnapped and raped Plauché's son, Joseph Boyce "Jody" Plauché (born April 27, 1972). Plauché shot Doucet on March 16, 1984 as he was being escorted through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport by law enforcement to face trial for what he had done to Plauché's son, 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. The case received wide publicity because some people questioned whether or not Plauché should have been charged with murder. When he was questioned as to why he shot Doucet, Plauché contended that he was in the right for killing Doucet for abusing his son and that any parent in a similar position would have taken the same action stating "if somebody did it to your kid, you'd do it too."