Louisiana deputy: Suspect confessed to killing 5

GONZALES, La. (AP) — A Louisiana deputy testified that a man accused of killing five people earlier this year confessed to the crimes after being captured in Virginia. WBRZ-TV reports the Ascension Parish deputy was in court Monday at a hearing for 22-year-old Dakota Theriot. The deputy recalled Theriot saying he shot the victims in “pure, cold blood.” The deputy also said Theriot pointed a gun at officers in an attempt to get them to shoot him when they went to capture him at