Man dies in Pine Prairie hostage standoff; woman rescued

An alleged hostage taker was shot and killed Thursday afternoon after 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 after hearing loud arguments and then gunshots.
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 began sometime after 9 a.m. when 911 was called Thursday. However, Massey said he had been told the incident actually began about 4 a.m. Thursday.
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.
He also said his father had a heart attack while the stand-off was occurring. Mayer said he believed the stand-off concluded when Massey was shot.
Authorities were unable to say how or who shot Massey.