CROWLEY, La. (AP) - The Acadia Sheriff's Office deputy who fired shots at a stolen tractor Saturday night was also the suspect's father.

Maxine Trahan, public information officer for the sheriff's office, says 25-year-old Lukie Dominic Ledet Jr.'s father was the law-enforcement officer who discharged his weapon in an attempt to stop the tractor on its path of destruction that included totaling a state police cruiser.