Sheriff Sam Craft should be serving time along with the two deputies. “because of the alleged domestic abuse” does not make them God. I guess Mr. Craft thinks the court system is a waste of time and he has appointed himself judge. Perhaps that attitude is spread among his deputies so they feel portected. LSP can’t keep turning these killers back out into society too much longer. If anyone has a video do not give it to the cops.

my suggestion is for you to educate yourself on the law before you post such outrageous comments such as the one listed above. unless you were present and know the laws reguarding domestic violence you should not judge the situation. the sheriff’s office will be investigated according to the law and after the outcome of that investigation you can make your silly comments. this is a tragedy that everyone involved hated to see happen. it sounds to me like you are being the judge and jury yourself. keep up the good work sheriff i think you are doing an awesome job.

i have to agree with justme09. Having said that cops do get away with a lot. I used to live in Vernon parish. Now I live in lecompte where the cops here get away with so much. They enforce the laws they want. Sam Craft, meet later after he got first elected, had the impression of being level headed. After seeing how he runs VPSO, I personally think someone else should be sheriff. Has anyone asked if they called a negotiator? Does the great and wonderful Sam Craft even have a negotiator on payroll? I agree if the officers story is true they did nothing wrong. Was their dash cam running? Hopefully more facts will come out.

You better believe that the true facts will come out.  My dad was an eyewitness to my murder scene, and he is going to tell the true story.  My family will see to that.  So you guys go ahead and do your popping off.  You will hear the truth soon.

This is Max Self, daddy of Mark Self who was slain on Tuesday night.Mark was slain by a SWAT team, not two deputies.I am eyewitness to his killing.Mark never pointed his rifle at the men.Sheriff Craft was also there.I can not yet prove that he was the one that called for the SWAT team to come out to kill Mark.Much more later.

I will tell you a little about Sam Craft trust him if you will but this is a man that takes the father brings him to a scene and has him watch as he has his son murdered before his eyes. Is the VPSO trustworthy or are they corupt? I say they are corupt we are paying our enemy to stand and say we protect you then shoot you in the head with his very own gun. Mark Self’s death was unjustifieable. Sam Craft was not the only man to blame here every man that issued a shot into the flesh of Mark Self are murderers along with Sam Craft. There are hidden gory details here that will be exposed and Sam Craft you will not get away with breaking the laws of Man or of God. You will be held acountable for the death of my brother.

Don’t believe everything you see on the news.  Everything they report is slanted, “from one view,” they’ve only given one side of the story. The only one left to tell the other side is the Father that the Sheriff caused to watch his Son be murdered before his eyes and the family members that were on the phone with him at the time. WE WILL TELL MARKS STORY…. We will stand together. We are standing behind Mark O. Self we will finish what was started or die trying. HE WILL BE VINDICATED…..

People should really pay close attention to the words of these stories.  They responded to a domestice dispute.  since when are there sharp shooters at a domestic dispute. The woman was outside the home when cops arrived. Therefore she was not in any real danger. Two hours later his daughter walked outside.  The cops spotted a gun within his reach. That means it was not in his hands. Since when is it against the law to have a gun inside your home.  Not once did a article say that he threatened to use the gun against anyone. They said he allegedly pointed a gun and two deputies shot and killed him.  Allegedly means that they weren’t sure if he did or not. Can cops realy shoot to kill on allegedly?

Mark has a huge family and the views are from all of his family.  One brother says how could he be out pointing a gun when he was on the phone with some of the other brothers the majority of the time. Might the phone be the threat? His cousin/brother want to ask why is the one with the most to gain has nothing to say? The youngest brother wants to know Where was the Law and Mark’s Rights at that night?  It was not there, but what was there were assassins.  The second eldest sister says If the cops want their story told then deliver us a video and if there is none you should not have destroyed it.  GOD STILL KNOWS. The next to the youngest sister says Who gave Sam Craft the Right to be Judge, Jury, and Executioner?

Please bring on your Comments.  We want to know the FACTS that you have.  Most of all we want Justice.

I am Max Self, Daddy of Mark self who was killed last Tuesday night under the direction of VPSO. You all heard Sheriff Craft say on KALB that a crime had been commited and they were not going to leave the scene. This means that a trial and judgement had already taken place. All that was left to do was to carry out the apparent death sentence.At the time when they killed Mark the VPSO had no search warrant, no arrest warrant and no recorded statement from the 911 caller.Check my website regularly at bebo.com, user name wendys306 and as soon as I have time I will begin to give you all the details of the vigilante style killing of my son by a group of men in law inforcement uniforms.