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A HOMOCIDE INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY IN LAFAYETTE. POLICE OFFICERS, RESPONDING TO REPORTS OF GUNSHOTS FIRED IN THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF RAILROAD STREET, FOUND A BODY. THE VICTIM HAD MULTIPLE GUNSHOT WOUNDS. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION CAN GIVE TIPS ANONYMOUSLY BY CALLING TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.
OPELOUSAS POLICE ARRESTED FOUR MINORS SATURDAY, WHO ALLEGEDLY STOLE A VEHICLE FROM BEAUMONT, TEXAS. THE ON STAR SERVICE CONTACTED POLICE IN OPELOUSAS ABOUT THE STOLEN VEHICLE, WHICH THEY HAD DISABLED ON ATTAKAPAS DRIVE IN THE INDIAN HILLS SUBDIVISION. THE SUSPECTS FLED BY FOOT WHEN OFFICERS ARRIVED BUT WERE CAPTURED WITH THE HELP OF A K-NINE OFFICER. OFFICERS FOUND TWO FIREARMS IN THE VEHICLE ALONG WITH A SMALL AMOUNT OF MARIJUANA.
TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A FIVE-YEAR-OLD BOY LAST THURSDAY. ADAUN GAINES WAS ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN LEFT ALONE AND WAS SHOT BY A SIX-YEAR-OLD WHO FOUND A GUN IN A BEDROOM AND BEGAN PLAYING WITH IT. TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD DESOME DANIELS, WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING THE KIDS AND WAS REPORTEDLY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS WHEN POLICE FOUND HER, FACES NUMEROUS CHARGES, INCLUDING PRINCIPAL TO NEGLIGENT HOMOCIDE. THE MOTHER OF ONE OF THE CHILDREN, KURSTIN RICHARD, WAS ALSO ARRESTED FOR PRINCIPAL TO NEGLIGENT HOMOCIDE AND POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON.
A SPOKESPERSON FROM GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS’ OFFICE HAS CONFIRMED THAT THE GOVERNOR WILL BE CALLING A SPECIAL SESSION. SYVLIA MASTERS EXPLAINS WHY.
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MAJOR REPAIRS HAVE BEGUN ON THE I-TEN OVERPASS AT THE EVANGELINE THRUWAY IN LAFAYETTE. THE BRIDGE WAS DAMAGED WHEN STRUCK BY AN EIGHTEEN-WHEELER EARLIER THIS MONTH. THE REPAIRS, SCHEDULED TO BEGIN SATURDAY, WERE DELAYED BECAUSE OF WEATHER. INSTEAD, THE REPAIRS BEGAN LAST NIGHT AT NINE.
JEANERETTE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED TWO ALLEGED DRUG DEALERS. THEY EXECUTED A KNOWN FELONY FUGITIVE WARRANT ON TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD JAVONTRAE RICHARD OF JEANERETTE AND FOUND FIVE FIREARMS, MARIJUANA, VARIOUS PILLS, CODIENE, AND CASH IN THE VEHICLE RICHARD WAS IN. HE AND ANOTHER MAN IN THE VEHICLE, TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD ROYCE MORRIS OF JEANERETTE, WERE ARRESTED ON NUMEROUS DRUG AND GUN CHARGES. A THIRD MAN WAS ALSO ARRESTED ON DRUG AND WEAPON POSESSION CHARGES, THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JARED EUGENE OF JEANERETTE.
THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING A HOMOCIDE THAT HAPPENED IN THE SEVEN THOUSAND BLOCK OF GRAGG ROAD IN BELL CITY. CHIEF DEPUTY STITCH GUILLORY SAYS THE HOMOCIDE APPEARS TO BE THE RESULT OF A DOMESTIC DISPUTE BETWEEN A HUSBAND AND A WIFE. THE HUSBAND WAS SHOT AND KILLED. DEPUTIES, WHO RESPONDED TO THE CALL ABOUT THE HOMOCIDE AT AROUND FIVE-FORTY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, TOOK THE WIFE INTO CUSTODY FOR QUESTIONING.
About one million customers of an electric utility in Louisiana will cover a repair bill of more than $1.4 billion after Hurricane Ida. Louisiana news outlets report Entergy Louisiana said residential customers will see about $5.50 added to their monthly bill for the next 15 years. The fee is to cover the remaining costs of damaged electrical equipment and the thousands of workers who rushed to restore power after the powerful August 2021 storm. The fee would only apply to Entergy Louisiana customers.
