Police use a picture of a reporter's face for target practice.

St. Bernard Parish, LA - A local sheriff is apologizing and promising to change departmental policy when it comes to target practice.

The developments came after FOX 8 uncovered chilling evidence his deputies may have been unhappy with a recent Lee Zurik investigation.

Last November, that investigation uncovered a long list of people who voted in the October 22nd election in St. Bernard Parish, even though they haven't lived there since Hurricane Katrina. Dozens on the list work for the Sheriff's office. Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler told us at the time, if those voters had homestead exemptions in other parishes, voting in St. Bernard Parish would be against the law.

Schedler launched his own investigation. By that time, the Sheriff's race was down to two candidates, Wayne Landry and Chief Deputy Jimmy Pohlman.

Landry was outraged by the alleged voter fraud. He said, "We go to war in foreign countries to make sure elections are fair and free and right here in the U.S. we have voter fraud like this taking place." Pohlman downplayed the allegations. Before the runoff election in November, he said, "I don't think people are going to be scared off by the ridiculous accusations of voter fraud."

In the end, the vote challenges came too late, so everyone in question was allowed to cast a ballot. Pohlman won the Sheriff's race with 60 percent of the vote.

That race may have gotten downright ugly, but it's what happened at the Sheriff's Office shooting range in the days and weeks that followed, that led FOX 8 to dig even more. We wanted to know who's been targeting the messenger.

At most shooting ranges, paper targets come in all shapes and sizes. There are silhouettes, unidentifiable people, animals, or bulls-eyes. Most come from a company that specializes in law enforcement targets. But FOX 8 found St. Bernard Deputies using a black and white photo of Lee Zurik's face instead.
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