A veteran Northshore police officer died Sunday morning after falling from a ladder while doing house work, according to a WWL-TV report.
The report said Lt. Minton "Vaughn" Whitehead,64, fell about 20-feet while trimming trees at his home off Tantela Ranch Road near Folsom.
Whitehead was airlifted to a Hammond hospital where he was pronounced dead.
"Vaughn was more than an employee, he was family," Mandeville Police Chief Gerald Sticker said to WWL-TV.
Read WWL-TV's report here.