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Corporal

Michael Paul Middlebrook

Lafayette Police Department — Lafayette, LA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch October 1, 2017

Age 44

Tour of Duty 9 yrs

Badge 13780

The Vigil Panel 167 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 6

Incident

Corporal Michael Middlebrook was shot and killed while responding to a shooting at a convenience store, near the intersection of Moss Street and Van Buren Street, at approximately 10:00 pm.

The call was originally dispatched as a person with a gun but was upgraded to a shooting. As Corporal Middlebrook arrived on the scene, a male subject opened fire on him, engaging him in a shootout. Corporal Middlebrook was fatally wounded during the exchange.

The man fled the scene but was later arrested and charged with first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder. In 2023, he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder and was sentenced to life in prison and 50 years for each attempted murder charge.

Corporal Middlebrook was a United States Army veteran and had served with the Lafayette Police Department for nine years. He was studying to become a pastor.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife, a 3-year-old daughter, two young stepdaughters, mother, father, two sisters, and brother.

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Added to badge.nw: August 2, 2026
Last updated: August 2, 2026

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Corporal Middlebrook gave the Lafayette Police Department 9 years.
Thank you for your service to the Lafayette community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Lafayette Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Platform Identity lpd.lafayette.la.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 1, 2017

Tour of Duty 9 yrs

Age 44

Badge Number 13780

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun; Unknown type

Military Service

Michael Paul Middlebrook served in the U.S. Army (1991) before joining law enforcement.

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Corporal Michael Paul Middlebrook is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In LA, 364 of 595 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 61.2% of this state's fallen. That is 61.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Lafayette Police Department, 7 of 7 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Lafayette Police Department

of 7 officers

100% Felonious

LA — Statewide

364

of 595 officers

61.2% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious