Jeanerette man charged in Nov. attack on police officers

JEANERETTE, La. (AP) - New charges have been filed against a Jeanerette man who was shot by police after investigators said he stabbed an officer in during an investigation in November.

Lance Dauphine, 42, was charged Friday with aggravated battery, aggravated assault and attempted home invasion, The Advocate reported (http://bit.ly/1FjFLkb ).

The charges stem from a Nov. 16 incident. As two officers responded to a complaint about a suspicious person trying to break into a home, they said Dauphine attacked them, stabbing one.

Dauphine was shot by an officer after the stabbing. Maj. Ryan Turner, an Iberia Parish sheriff's spokesman, said the two officers, John Brown and Juandre Gilliam, "were cleared of any wrongdoing or negligence" in the shooting.

The sheriff's office reviewed the shooting at the request of the Jeanerette Police Department, Turner said.

The new charges are lower than those on which Dauphine originally was booked.

He has been in the Iberia Parish jail since Nov. 17 on two counts of attempted first-degree murder of a police officer. If convicted, Dauphine faces up to 10 ˆ½ years in prison. It was not immediately clear whether he has an attorney.