10-27-20
A lawsuit filed by the parents of a Lafayette man killed by police says their son did not have a knife when he was killed. Trayford Pellerin died Aug. 21 as he walked away from a convenience store in Lafayette. Police said the 31-year-old Black man was trying to go into another store while still holding a knife when officers shot him. In Monday’s federal lawsuit, Pellerin’s family said the only knife seen in body camera footage and photographs after the shooting shown to them is one used to cut Pellerin’s clothing to give him first aid after he was shot.
A FOUR WEEK LONG INVESTIGATION HAS UNCOVERED AN ELABORATE DRUG DISTRIBUTION NETWORK AT THE ST. MARTIN PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER, ACCORDING TO SHERIFF BECKET BREAUX. HE SAYS THE NETWORK WAS CARRIED OUT BY WORKING INMATES AND GENERAL POPULATION INMATES. SIX PEOPLE WERE CHARGED WITH RACKETEERING INVOLVING THE INTRODUCTION OF CONTRBAND AND ILLEGAL NARCOTICS TO THE PRISON. BREAUX SAYS A SEVENTH AND FINAL SUSPECT WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY ON NUMEROUS CHARGES, TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BRISEN JONES OF BROUSSARD.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has filed a lawsuit challenging House Republicans’ efforts to rescind Louisiana’s statewide mask mandate, business restrictions and other limits the Democratic governor enacted to combat the coronavirus. The lawsuit filed Monday keeps the rules in a sort of legal limbo. House Republicans say they have nullified the entire public health emergency and the rules Edwards enacted. But Edwards’ administration continues to enforce the rules and argues the law used by GOP lawmakers to revoke his emergency orders is unconstitutional. House Republicans relied on a never-before-used process that allows a majority of legislators in either the House or Senate to sign a petition to revoke an emergency declaration.
STUDENTS AT HACKBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAD THEIR FIRST DAY BACK IN SCHOOL YESTERDAY AND THEY HAD A SPECIAL NINE-YEAR-OLD GUEST. BRANTLEY DEPRIEST OF SULPHUR HAS BEEN COLLECTING SUPPLIES AND STUFFED MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED BACKPACKS WITH THEM. SHE GOT AN EXCUSE FROM HER OWN SCHOOL TO DELIVER ONE HUNDRED THIRTY BACKPACKS TO STUDENTS IN HACKBERRY YESTERDAY. SCHOOL NURSE ASHLEY POOLE TOLD KATC TV THAT IT WAS UNREAL AND THAT BRANTLEY PUT A LOT OF SMILES ON THE STUDENT’S FACES.
SOME LAFAYETTE PARISH RESIDENTS NOTICED A LOW FLYING MILITARY PLANE MONDAY NIGHT. IT TURNED OUT TO BE THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE’S NINE HUNDRED TENTH AIRLIFT WING AND IT WAS BEING USED TO SPRAY FOR MOSQUITOES. SPRAYING WAS SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY BUT KATC-TV SAYS THERE WAS NO INDICATION THERE WOULD BE SPRAYING LAST NIGHT. THE PESTICIDE NALED WAS DISPERSED, WHICH KILLS MOSQUITOES ON CONTACT, BUT OTHERWISE DROPS TO THE GROUND AND DISSIPATES QUICKLY, ACCORDING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY.
A PASSENGER IN A HIGH SPEED PURSUIT, THAT ENDED WITH THE CAR FLIPPING ON PARKERSON STREET IN CROWLEY LAST THURSDAY, HAS DIED. SHE’S BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD ASHLEY SONNIER OF CROWLEY, WHO DIED FROM INJURIES RECEIVED IN THE CRASH. THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE WAS TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD DUSTIN MAGNON OF RAYNE, WHO WAS BEING PURSUED BY AUTHORITIES BECAUSE HE WAS WANTED ON EIGHTEEN WARRANTS INCLUDING ONE FOR ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER. NOW HE IS ALSO BEING CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER.
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTS EIGHTTEEN MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN IN THE STATE. HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE DOWN BY NINE, DROPPING THE TOTAL TO SIX HUNDRED AGAIN. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS JUMPED BY TWENTY TO NINETY-ONE. THERE ARE NINE HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO NEW CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN IN LOUISIANA, WHICH MOVES THE TOTAL TO ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED NINETY-ONE.
THERE ARE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO NEW CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN IN ACADIANA. ST. LANDRY PARISH HAS THE MOST WITH FIFTY-THREE, LAFAYETTE PARISH ADDS THIRTY AND ACADIA PARISH ADDS TWENTY TO LEAD THE REGION IN NEW CASES. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDS FOURTY MORE CASES, INCLUDING THIRTY-SIX IN CALCASIEU PARISH, FOURTEEN IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH, ONE IN BEAUEGARD PARISH AND AN ADJUSTED ELEVEN FEWER IN ALLEN PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA DOES NOT HAVE ANY NEW DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN. ACADIANA HAS THREE MORE DEATH, ONE IN ACADIA PARISH, IBERIA PARISH AND ST.MARY PARISH.
