10-13-21
THE MAN WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED AT A CARWASH LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF ERASTE LANDRY AND CAJUNDOME BOULEVARD IN LAFAYETTE LAST FRIDAY HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THIRTY-YEAR-OLD KEYON ALEX. POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR THE PERSON OR PERSONS WHO SHOT AND KILLED KEYON. HIS WIFE, MARNEKA ALEX, TELLS KLFY TV THAT SHE HAD TO SEE KEYON’S BODY LYING ON THE GROUND TO CONFIRM THAT IT WAS HIM, AND UPON SEEING IT, SHE SAYS, HER WHOLE LIFE SHATTERED AND HER HUSBAND WASN’T THERE TO PICK UP THE PIECES. SHE SENT A MESSAGE TO THE KILLER OR KILLERS THAT THEY DIDN’T ONLY HURT KEYON BUT THEY HURT HIS TWO SONS WHO WILL GROW UP WITHOUT A FATHER.
FAMILIES LEFT HOMELESS AFTER AN APARTMENT FIRE IN SAINT MARTINVILLE WILL BE MOVED INTO NEW RENOVATED UNITS BY FRIDAY. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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LAKE CHARLES POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST IN CONNECTION WITH A DOUBLE HOMOCIDE THAT HAPPENED IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS SATURDAY ON GENERAL PATTON STREET. DETECTIVES LEARNED THAT A SUSPECTED NARCOTICS TRANSACTION WAS INVOLVED IN THE TWO HOMOCIDES, AND THE VICTIMS WERE TWO BROTHERS FROM HONDURAS, FORTY-YEAR-OLD RUDIY ELISANDRO PINTO-ARITA AND THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MARCIO ANTONIO PINTO-ARITA. YESTERDAY MORNING, OFFICERS WITH A SWAT TEAM LOCATED A SUSPECT AND ARRESTED HIM. THIRTY-YEAR-OLD ANTONIO DEVON HADNOT OF LAKE CHARLES HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT ONE-POINT-TWO MILLION.
ON AUGUST SEVENTEENTH, MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE IN LOUISIANA WERE HOSPITALIZED FOR COVID-NINETEEN AND NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY WERE ON VENTILATORS. AS OF MONDAY, THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTED FIVE HUNDRED SIX HOSPITALIZATIONS AND ONE HUNDRED TWO ON VENTILATORS. THE FIVE HOSPITALS IN THE OSCHNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM HAD A TOTAL OF NINETEEN COVID PATIENTS. THAT’S A SIGNIFICANT DROP FROM THE PEAK OF THE FOURTH SURGE WHEN MORE THAN NINETY PATIENTS HAD BEEN ADMITTED IN A SINGLE WEEK.
OCHSNER HEALTH SAYS THAT AS OF LAST WEEK, EIGHTY-SIX PERCENT OF THEIR EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN FULLY VACCINATED AND NINETY PERCENT HAVE RECEIVED AT LEAST THE FIRST DOSE. PRESIDENT AND C-E-O WARNER THOMAS CREDITED A VACCINE MANDATE FOR EMPLOYEES, IN WHICH THEY’VE SET DEADLINES FOR WHEN THEY HAVE TO BE VACCINATED OR FACE TERMINATION. SOME EMPLOYEES HAVE FILED A LAWSUIT ATTEMPTING TO STOP THE MANDATE BUT JUDGES HAVE REJECTED THEIR REQUEST. ATTORNEYS FOR THE EMPLOYEES HAVE FILED APPEALS.
HOUSES BEING T’PED IN IBERIA PARISH IS A HOMECOMING TRADITION, WITH TOILET PAPER STREWN OVER YARDS. HOWEVER THIS YEAR THE TRADITION IS GETTING OUT OF HAND, ACCORDING TO SHERIFF TOMMY ROMERO. HE SAYS SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE COMPLAINED ABOUT VANDALISM AND THERE WAS ONE ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN. HE SAYS CASES OF PROPERTY DAMAGE WILL BE INVESTIGATED AND THOSE RESPONSIBLE ARRESTED. THAT INCLUDES EGGING A CAR, WHICH, ROMERO SAYS, CAN DAMAGE THE VEHICLE.
AN ARREST WARRANT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR TYLER WAYNE OBLANC OF IOTA. HE IS WANTED FOR THEFT, ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF STOLEN THINGS, THEFT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE AND SECOND DEGREE DOMESTIC ABUSE BATTERY. THEY ARE ASKING ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHERE HE IS TO CALL THE ACADIA PARISH TIPS LINE AT SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS. UP TO A THOUSAND DOLLAR CASH REWARD IS BEING OFFERED FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST OF OBLANC.
FAMILIES AND PREGNANT WOMEN WHO RECEIVE WIC BENEFITS ARE CONTINUING TO GET EXTRA HELP. SYLVIA MASTERS EXPLAINS.
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