10-2-23
ON FRIDAY, LAFAYETTE POLICE ARRESTED A SECOND PERSON IN CONNECTION WITH A HOMOCIDE THAT HAPPENED IN JANUARY OF LAST YEAR ON STERLING STREET. THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD WARREN PREJEAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED. TWENTY-YEAR-OLD KERIAHNA JEAN LOUIS WAS ARRESTED ON A WARRANT ISSUED LAST YEAR FOR PRINCIPLE TO SECOND DEGREE MURDER. IN FEBRUARY, TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD KASYN ALEXANDER WAS ARRESTED FOR SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AS WELL AS OTHER DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES.
A MAN IS DEAD AND A WOMAN IS SERIOUSLY INJURED AFTER A SHOOTING IN OPELOUSAS. DANIELLE DUNCAN REPORTS.
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THE LOUISIANA FORTIFY HOMES PROGRAM, WHICH ASSISTS HOMEOWNERS WITH ROOF UPGRADES, STARTS TODAY. THE PROGRAM OPENS AT NOON WITH THE FIRST ROUND OF FIVE HUNDRED GRANTS THAT WILL BE UP TO TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS EACH TO UPGRADE ROOFS TO WITHSTAND HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS. THE GRANTS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE BASIS. TO FIND OUT MORE, GO TO THE WEBSITE, L-D-I-DOT-L-A-DOT-GOV.
A PORTION OF LOUISIANA AVENUE IN LAKE CHARLES WILL BE CLOSED TODAY. CREWS WILL BE WORKING TO REPAIR SIDEWALKS NEXT TO THE AVENUE’S DETENTION BASIN. THE NORTHBOUND LANE WILL BE CLOSED FROM MCCALL STREET TO CONTRABAND BAYOU. THE CLOSURE WILL TAKE PLACE BEGINNING AT EIGHT A-M AND LAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING AT SIX.
THE SCOTT FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED LAST NIGHT AT AROUND SIX TO REPORTS OF SMOKE NEAR SUPER ONE FOODS, BUT, ON THE WAY, THEY LEARNED IT WAS A CAMPER, A SHED AND CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS ON FIRE BEHIND A HOME ON HIGHWAY NINETY-THREE. THEY QUICKLY DOUSED THE FLAMES BEFORE THEY SPREAD. WITNESSES SAYS THERE WAS A LOUD EXPLOSION RESULTING IN A MASS OF BLACK SMOKE. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS INVESTIGATING THE CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION AND FIRE.
AFTER A FIVE-DAY TRIAL IN IBERIA PARISH, BRYSON JOHNLEWIS WAS FOUND GUILTY IN THE TWENTY-NINETEEN MURDER OF SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD GARON LEWIS. ON AUGUST SIXTEENTH OF THAT YEAR, LEWIS WAS SHOT AND KILLED WHILE WAITING IN HIS CAR FOR HIS GIRLFRIEND. AUTHORITIES SAYS LEWIS WAS MISTAKEN FOR A RIVAL GANG MEMBER WHICH LED TO THE SHOOTING. JOHNLEWIS WAS FOUND GUILTY OF PRINCIPAL TO SECOND-DEGREE MURDER, CONSPIRACTY TO COMMIT SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND FELON IN POSSESSION OF A HANDGUN. HE WILL BE SENTENCED IN JANUARY.
President Joe Biden’s administration has proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years. The Democratic administration is trying to navigate between energy companies that have pressed for greater oil and gas production and environmental activists who have urged Biden to shut down new offshore drilling in the fight against climate change. The three lease sales proposed Friday are the minimum number the administration could legally offer if it wants to continue expanding offshore wind development. A 2022 climate law dictates the government must offer offshore oil and gas leases before it can offer offshore wind power.
A CHARENTON WOMAN WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH SATURDAY MORNING ON HIGHWAY NINETY-SEVEN IN SAINT MARY PARISH, NEAR JUSTA STREET. STATE POLICE SAY FIFTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD ROBBIN LANDRY VINING WAS DRIVING NORTH IN A TOYOTA COROLLA WHEN SHE LEFT THE ROAD FOR UNKNOWN REASONS AND HIT A DITCH, WHICH CAUSED HER CAR TO OVERTURN. SHE WAS EJECTED AND PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. A PASSENGER IN THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
