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A WOMAN WAS FOUND DEAD IN LAFAYETTE PARISH TUESDAY. SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES WERE SENT TO THE TWO HUNDRED BLOCK OF STAGECOACH LANE JUST AFTER ONE P-M BECAUSE OF CALLS ABOUT AN UNRESPONSIVE WOMAN THERE. THEY FOUND THE BODY OF THIRTY-YEAR-OLD MEGAN GOINS, WHO WAS THE VICTIM OF AN APPARENT GUNSHOT WOUND. THERE WERE NO SUSPECTS OR ARRESTS MADE IN THE CASE AS OF YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
THE FAMILY OF FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD TREONTE JOHNSON OF NEW IBERIA HELD A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL AT THE PLACE WHERE HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED OVER THE WEEKEND. JOHNSON WAS SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES JUST BEFORE EIGHT P-M SATURDAY AND DIED ON SUNDAY. JOHNSON’S AUNT, MICHELLE WILTZ, TELLS KLFY TV SHE BELIEVES IT WAS CHILDREN AROUND JOHNSON’S AGE WHO SHOT HIM. SHE SAYS SHE HOPES THE PARENTS OF THE CHILDREN WHO DID THIS WILL TURN THEM INTO POLICE.
LOUISIANA IS NOW ONLY BEHIND MISSISSIPPI FOR HAVING THE HIGHEST HOMOCIDE RATE IN THE NATION. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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THE TOWN OF ELTON IS UNDER A BOIL WATER ADVISORY AFTER WATER WAS SHUT OFF TO THE TOWN FOR TWO DAYS. MAYOR KESIA LEMOINE SAYS A CITIZEN SPOTTED A LEAK THAT TURNED OUT TO BE BIGGER THAN EXPECTED, REQUIRING PARTS AND EQUIPMENT FROM LAFAYETTE. CLASSES WERE CANCELLED AT THE ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL, BUT RESUME TODAY. LEMOINE SAYS SHE CAN’T GUARANTEE THERE WON’T BE ANOTHER WATER LEAK, BUT SHE HAS A PLAN TO REPLACE DEFECTIVE CUT OFF VALVES SO WATER WILL NOT HAVE TO BE SHUT OFF TO THE WHOLE TOWN.
A LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICER WHO WAS FIRED IN FEBRUARY OF TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE WAS REINSTATED YESTERDAY BY THE LAFAYETTE MUNICIPAL FIRE AND POLICE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD. PABLO ESTRADA WAS FIRED BY THEN POLICE CHIEF THOMAS GLOVER FOR USING EXCESSIVE FORCE ON A HANDCUFFED OFFENDER IN THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER. ESTRADA PUSHED THE MAN AGAINST A WALL AND STRUCK HIM IN THE ABDOMEN AFTER HE REFUSED REPEATED REQUESTS TO SIT. SEVERAL WITNESSES TESTIFIED AT YESTERDAY’S HEARING, SAYING ESTRADA DID NOT VIOLATE DEPARTMENT POLICE IN THE INCIDENT.
TWO PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN A SHOOTING TUESDAY NIGHT IN CROWLEY. ONE OF THE TWO WAS A JUVENILE WHO WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THIRTY SPENT HIGH-POWERED RIFLE CASINGS WERE FOUND AT THE SCENE OF THE SHOOTING, WHICH HAPPENED AT THE EASTERN ENTRANCE OF THE WESTWOOD SUBDIVISION ON MARCEL THOMAS STREET. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL CROWLEY POLICE.
NEW LEGISLATION IS IN THE WORKS TO HELP SCHOOLS BETTER ADDRESS THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS THAT STUDENTS ARE FACING. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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A SAINT LANDRY PARISH MAN DIED TUESDAY FROM INJURIES RECEIVED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN ACADIA PARISH THAT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE ONE-THIRTY SUNDAY MORNING. SEVENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD BERNARD BUSH OF WASHINGTON WAS DRIVING A DUMP TRUCK WITH AN ELEVATED DUMP BED, WHICH STRUCK THE UNDERNEATH PART OF THE TRUMPS ROAD OVERPASS NEAR EXIT SEVENTY-TWO ON THE INTERSTATE. THE DUMP BED SEPERATED FROM THE FRAME CAUSING THE CAB PORTION TO OVERTURN AND BUSH, WHO WASN’T WEARING A SEAT BELT, WAS EJECTED. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION AND DIED TUESDAY.
