10-10-23
THE FRANKLIN POLICE DEPARTMENT IS HOPING SOMEONE WILL STEP FORWARD WITH VIDEO OF THE ASSAULT OF TWO POLICE OFFICERS DURING A FIGHT AT FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL OVER THE WEEKEND. POLICE CHIEF CEDRIC HANDY TELLS KLFY TV THAT THEY USED MACE TO BREAK UP THE FIGHT THAT INVOLVED A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS. THEN TWO OFFICERS WERE ASSAULTED AND TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT, THOUGH THEY ARE DOING FINE NOW. HANDY SAYS THREE PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED ON MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING BATTERY OF A POLICE OFFICER AND MORE ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED.
PARISH PROUD IN LAFAYETTE PARISH HAS RECEIVED AN EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLAR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES GRANT FROM KEEP LOUISIANA BEAUTIFUL. THE MONEY WILL BE USED TO PROVIDE TROOP BUCKETS TO LAFAYETTE CITIZENS THAT CONTAIN ALL THAT IS NEEDED TO PICK UP LITTER SAFELY AND EFFICIENTLY. TROOP BUCKETS WILL BE PROVIDED FOR CORPORATE EVENTS THAT ARE PARTNERED WITH PARISH PROUD AND INDIVIDUALS WHO WANT TO GET BUCKETS CAN CALL SARAH MARY TOCE (TAWS) DONLON AT SARAH-DOT-MARY@PARISH PROUD-DOT-COM. SHE IS THE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR FOR PARISH PROUD AND SAYS THEY ARE AIMING TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO CHANNEL THEIR PASSION TOWARDS THE BETTERMENT OF THE PARISH.
STATE POLICE RELEASED VIDEO FOOTAGE OF AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING ON AUGUST TWENTY-FOURTH THAT BEGAN WITH A TRAFFIC STOP ON L-A TWENTY-SEVEN NEAR HACKBERRY. THE SUSPECT, THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD SPENCER WILSON OF JACKSONVILLE, TEXAS IS SEEN THEN DRIVING AWAY AND FIRING SHOTS AT THE DEPUTY WHO PULLED HIM OVER. HE LATER CRASHES HIS CAR IN CALCASIEU PARISH AND CONTINUES FIRING SHOTS AT OFFICERS WHILE RUNNING AWAY AND AT LEAST FIVE OFFICERS RETURNED FIRE. WILSON WAS LATER FOUND WITH A SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND AND A SULPHUR POLICE OFFICER RECEIVED A NON-LIFE-THREATENING GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEAD.
EARLY VOTING FOR LOUISIANA’S GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY, WHICH ENDED SATURDAY, WAS EIGHT PERCENT LESS THAN THE PREVIOUS PRIMARY IN TWENTY-NINETEEN. REPUBLICANS OUTNUMBERED DEMOCRATS IN THE EARLY VOTING BY ABOUT FIFTEEN THOUSAND VOTES. THAT’S A GOOD SIGN FOR REPUBLICANS BECAUSE DEMOCRATS TYPICALLY VOTE EARLY WHILE REPUBLICANS NORMALLY VOTE IN GREATER NUMBERS ON ELECTION DAY. POLLSTER JOHN COUVILLON IS EXPECTING BETWEEN A THIRTY-EIGHT AND FORTY PERCENT TURNOUT OF LOUISIANA REGISTERED VOTERS FOR THIS YEAR’S ELECTION, BASED ON EARLY VOTING, WHICH WOULD BE AROUND ONE-POINT-TWO MILLION PEOPLE.
A MAN FROM RAYNE WAS KILLED IN A CRASH SUNDAY NIGHT. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT IS TRANSITIONING ITS GARBAGE AND RECYCLING COLLECTION FROM REPUBLIC SERVICES TO ACADIANA WASTE SERVICES. ACADIANA WASTE WILL BEGIN COLLECTIONS ON OCTOBER THIRTIETH. RESIDENTS SHOULD NOT USE THE NEW A-W-S CARTS UNTIL THE END OF THE MONTH BECAUSE REPUBLIC SERVICES WILL ONLY PICK UP REPUBLIC CARTS. WHEN ACADIANA WASTE TAKES OVER, THEY WILL NOT BE PICKING UP REPUBLIC CARTS, WHICH MUST BE RETURNED TO REPUBLIC SERVICES.
A LAKE CHARLES MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR SECOND-DEGREE MURDER FOR A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED OVER THE WEEKEND. LAKE CHARLES POLICE RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF A SHOOTING AT AROUND FIVE SATURDAY MORNING IN THE THREE THOUSAND BLOCK OF LAKE STREET, WHERE THEY FOUND TWO GUNSHOT VICTIMS, ONE OF WHOM DIED A FEW HOURS LATER, THIRTY-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER PATTUM. DETECTIVES CONDUCTING AN INVESTIGATION LEARNED THAT THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AFTER A VERBAL ALTERCATION BETWEEN MULTIPLE PARTIES. TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD TRAVIS MALIKE GERALD MELBERT WAS ARRESTED ON THE MURDER CHARGE AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT ONE-POINT-FIVE-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.
NEW IBERIA POLICE HAVE MADE ANOTHER ARREST IN CONNECTION WITH THE JULY FIFTEENTH SHOOTING THAT LEFT A THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILD CRITICALLY WOUNDED. TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD SY LANDON PATOUT WAS ARRESTED ON SEVEN COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND ILLEGAL USE OF WEAPONS. HE WAS BOOKED INTO JAIL FOR THE CHARGES RELATED TO THE DRIVE-BY SHOOTING AS WELL AS AN OUTSTANDING WARRANT FOR AN UNRELATED CASE. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING CAN REPORT IT ANONYMOUSLY BY CALLING IBERIA PARISH CRIMESTOPPERS AT THREE-SIX-FOUR-TIPS.
