Bayard Shooting

Bayard Shooting is an event in Season One of the Showtime series DEXTER.

It is an officer-involved shooting between Sergeant-Detective James Doakes and Jacques Bayard.

Season One

 * "Father Knows Best"

Shooters

 * Jacques Bayard - Formerly, a death squad officer named Rene Thibault who worked for the Haitian government.
 * Sergeant James Doakes - An ex-Army Ranger, currently employed by Miami Metro Homicide

Witness

 * Detective Angel Batista - He was riding in the car with Doakes when he spotted Bayard. He then drove the car in pursuit of Bayard. He heard Doakes gun go off first, before Bayard's, and later reported this to Internal Affairs.

Summary
While James Doakes was in the special forces unit of the army, he was sent to Haiti were he saw death squad officers brutally killing people. Jacques Bayard was one of these death squad officers. At one point, Bayard came to blows with Doakes. Eventually, Bayard left that life and formed a new one in Miami.

When Doakes was riding shotgun in Angel Batista's car, he spotted the war criminal, and yelled out for Batista to stop the car. Doakes jumped out and pursued Bayard of foot. He then took out his gun, and shot Bayard before he could get a shot off. A death impulse triggered Bayard's finger to pull off one shot at the column under the bridge.

Doakes lied about who shot first, and the location from where he fired, but all was revealed by Dexter's blood work and Angel's testimony. Bayard's death was covered up, even though there was evidence to suggest that it was a premeditated murder.

Casualties

 * Jacques Bayard - Killed by James Doakes

Fallout from Shooting
After the shooting, Sergeant Doakes was put on suspension, pending a full investigation. He was interviewed by Sergeant McKay from Internal Affairs. Ultimately, the case was closed when Internal Affairs received a call from an unknown Washington agency saying that the case related to sensitive international security matters.

Angel Batista was temporarily treated as a snitch by the rest of the department. When Doakes noticed this, he made an officer apologize to Angel in front of the whole department, making it clear that he didn't want Batista, who was a good cop, to pay for something that he did.

Related Pages

 * James Doakes
 * Jacques Bayard
 * Sergeant McKay