LODD: Capt. Joe Prock, 52, Louisiana

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Prock, Joe F. 

Age: 52 

Cause of Death: Other 

Rank: Captain 

Nature of Death: Burns 

Classification: Career 

Emergency Duty: Yes   

Incident Date: 04/01/2006 

Duty Type: Other On-Duty 

Incident Time: 15:35 

Activity Type: Other 

Death Date: 04/01/2006 

Fixed Prop. Use: Residential 

Fire Dept. Info:

Caddo Fire District #3

PO Box 304

Greenwood , Louisiana  71033

Chief: Chief Don McMullen

 

Initial Summary:   

Captain Prock responded to an emergency call at a residence and was attacked and killed by two assailants while on-scene.  

Memorial Fund Info: AM SOUTH BANK, Acct. #0058544518, 6800 Pines Road, Shreveport, LA 71118 (800) 627-6884. Funeral: 04/05/2006 1100hrs in Greenwood, LA Contact Edie Mcrary for more information @ 318-938-5290 

USFA

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This is outrageous !! :angry:

Police seek suspects in deadly home invasion

Retired Caddo fire captain shot in head, set on fire

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April 2, 2006

By Joel Anderson

joelanderson@gannett.com

Shreveport-times.com

GREENWOOD -- Having recently retired, Joe Prock had more time to do things like visit his mother at her home in the rural outskirts of Caddo Parish.

Neighbors said it wasn't uncommon to see the longtime Caddo fire captain check on his mother, Bobbie Prock, an elderly widow who was mostly protected by inquisitive friends and the isolation of a rustic area filled with large farms, small churches and pine trees.

But when Joe Prock pulled up to his mother's home on Saturday afternoon, unforeseen danger lurked inside.

Prock was shot and killed when he interrupted a home invasion in progress, and now, law enforcement authorities are looking for two suspects who fled the scene in two vehicles.

"He was the nicest man you'll ever meet," Caddo Parish sheriff's deputy Greg Ardoin said of Prock. "There's no words to describe it ... it's always hard to work a case like this."

Authorities said Prock was making a routine check on his mother when he noticed an unfamiliar vehicle parked near the front of her home in the 8800 block of state Highway 169 in Greenwood.

Prock entered the home from a back entrance and the two suspects quickly attacked him, authorities said.

He was knocked to the ground and tied up in the kitchen.

Soon after, the two men fatally shot Prock in the head and set his body on fire with some sort of chemical accelerant in the kitchen, authorities said.

As the blaze spread in the home, the suspects took a few items and left in separate vehicles, leaving with Bobbie Prock's silver, four-door 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis.

Authorities said the car has a Louisiana license plate that reads KNM 934.

The other car was a white, four-door late 1980s to early '90s Chevrolet Caprice.

Police described the two suspects as young black males, who were both wearing dark clothing and dark handkerchiefs over their faces.

"These are definitely some armed and dangerous people," Ardoin said. "It was a senseless crime."

Authorities are still trying to determine the exact cause of Joe Prock's death. His body was taken to a coroner's office in Little Rock, Ark.

The suspects had apparently been targeting Bobbie Prock's modest, white clapboard home for a robbery, authorities said.

She was spending a peaceful afternoon at her home when she heard her dog barking outside, authorities said. Bobbie Prock opened her front door to check on the commotion when the suspects stormed inside the house, knocked her to the floor and tied her up in the living room.

The two men began ransacking the home and repeatedly asked her, "Where's the money?" Ardoin said.

But the suspects got quiet once they heard Joe Prock approach the home and got into position for a surprise attack, Ardoin said.

Bound up in the living room, Bobbie Prock could hear her son being shot to death and set on fire. She managed to free herself and get outside before the flames could harm her, authorities said.

Prock, 79, was taken to Willis-Knighton Medical Center/North in Shreveport and was being treated for smoke inhalation, minor injuries and shock.

"She's pretty shaken up," Ardoin said. "She knows her son is deceased."

Authorities couldn't determine the extent of fire damage to the home, but the front of the house seemed unscathed. A few rocking chairs had been scattered about on the front porch and a front window was open.

The violent attack rocked the rural community, as local firefighters and police officers -- many of whom had worked with Joe Prock -- and neighbors milled around the home's tree-filled front yard with tears in their eyes.

"I'm devastated -- I've known them their whole life," neighbor Beth Stough said. "It just makes you upset that something like that happened. You think about it, but you don't really think this is possible."

Prock had been a decorated firefighter for the Caddo Parish Fire District No. 3, and was once named career firefighter of the year in 1996. He leaves behind a wife and two children, a son and a daughter.

"Everybody is kind of shook up ... we're going to need a few days before we can talk about this," said a firefighter who answered the phone at Caddo Parish's Greenwood fire station, where Prock had worked.

Saturday's home invasion is the latest in a string of similar attacks throughout the region, including one in the Westdale community March 1, when four people, three of whom were toting guns, barged into an elderly couple's mobile home and robbed them. No one has been arrested in that case yet.

The two cases are not believed to be related, authorities said.

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The USFA has changed the designation of Capt. Prock's death to non-LOD, since he had recently retired.

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His family is in my thoughts and prayers.

I just can't believe that people would do something like this. Call in a fake emergency and then kill the guy that is there to help them and protect them.

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credit: Shane Bevel/Shreveport Times