10-20-23
ONE PERSON WAS CRITICALLY WOUNDED IN A SHOOTING IN UPPER LAFAYETTE. DANIELLE DUNCAN REPORTS.
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GRAND COTEAU POLICE CHIEF JEFFREY CARL GUILBEAU WAS PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE WEDNESDAY, ACCORDING TO ALDERMAN DEVIN THOMAS. A PETITION WAS SUBMITTED LAST MONTH THAT NEEDS THREE HUNDRED SIGNATURES TO INITIATE A RECALL OF GUILBEAU. HE WAS ARRESTED BACK IN JULY ON CHARGES THAT INCLUDED DISTRIBUTION OF SCHEDULE ONE NARCOTICS, THEFT AND MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE. THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE MADE THE ARREST AFTER A MONTHS LONG INVESTIGATION INTO COMPLAINTS ABOUT ILLEGAL DRUG ACTIVITY.
The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Black voters in Louisiana to speed the process of drawing new congressional districts in the state. The justices on Thursday declined to overrule a federal appeals court, which last month blocked a district judge’s plan to hold hearings for a new map with a second majority-Black congressional district for use in the 2024 elections. The appeals court said Judge Shelly Dick was moving too fast and must give the state more time to consider a new map. Civil rights groups had hoped a new map for Louisiana would follow quickly after the Supreme Court rebuffed attempts by Alabama officials to avoid creating a second district where Black voters make up a substantial portion of the electorate.
A PILOT PROGRAM THAT WOULD RAISE TWENTY-SEVEN HOMES IN VERMILLION, CALCASIEU AND CAMERON PARISHES TO HEIGHTS THAT WOULD KEEP THEM ABOVE ONE HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD LEVELS COULD BEGIN IN MAY. NEARLY THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED HOMES IN THOSE PARISHES HAVE BEEN TARGETED FOR ELEVATION. CONGRESS APPROPRIATED FOUR HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS THAT WOULD PAY FOR ELEVATING ANOTHER ONE THOUSAND HOMES OVER THE NEXT YEAR OR SO. THE INCLUSION OF THE OTHER NEARLY TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED HOMES WOULD REQUIRE ADDITIONAL FUNDING BY CONGRESS.
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED SUNDAY, OCTOBER EIGHTH, AFTER TWO A-M IN THE TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF WEST CONGRESS. THE U-S MARSHAL’S VIOLENT OFFENDERS TASK FORCE ASSISTED LAFAYETTE POLICE IN ARRESTING NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD LADAVION GALLEGOS OF JENNINGS ON FOUR COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND ONE COUNT OF SIMPLE THEFT. THE VICTIM WAS A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THE REASON FOR THE SHOOTING HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED.
A BALDWIN MAN WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD MAN ON OCTOBER FIRST IN NEW IBERIA. THE VICTIM WAS SHOT WHEN HE CAME OUT OF AMIGO FOOD MART ON IBERIA STREET AND TRIED TO STOP HIS VEHICLE FROM BEING STOLEN. A JUVENILE WAS ARRESTED ON OCTOBER FIFTH FOR FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND THREE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. YESTERDAY TWENTY-YEAR-OLD AIDEN DUNCAN WAS ARRESTED ON THE SAME CHARGES AS THE JUVENILE AS WELL AS NUMEROUS OTHER CHARGES.
THE RESTORE LOUISIANA HOMEOWNER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM HAS EXTENDED ITS APPLICATION DEADLINE TO OCTOBER THIRTY-FIRST. THE NEW DEADLINE IS FOR THE SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED HOMEOWNERS AFFECTED BY HURRICANES IN TWENTY-TWENTY AND TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE. RESTORE LOUISIANA PROVIDES FEDERAL GRANT ASSISTANCE TO THOSE HOMEOWNERS. IN A PRESS RELEASE, THEY SAY THOSE HOMEOWNERS WHO DO NOT SUBMIT APPLICATIONS BY THE END OF THE MONTH AND HAVE DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS BY THE END OF THIS YEAR MAY EXPERIENCE DELAYS IN THE REIMBURSEMENT PROCESS.
AN IOTA MAN WAS KILLED IN A CRASH ON HIGHWAY THIRTEEN IN ACADIA PARISH WEDNESDAY. THE DRIVER OF A DODGE RAM PICKUP, DWAYNE THOMAS, ATTEMPTED TO PASS SEVERAL VEHICLES IN FRONT OF HIM WHEN HE HIT A HYUNDAI SONATA THAT WAS TURNING ONTO ELLIS ROAD. THE FORCE OF THE COLLISION CAUSED BOTH VEHICLES TO GO OFF THE ROAD AND INTO A UTILITY POLE. THE DRIVER OF THE SONATA, SEVENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL MYERS, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE WHILE THOMAS SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES.
