11-12-18
A PEDESTRIAN WAS KILLED ON NORTH UNIVERSITY ROAD IN LAFAYETTE SATURDAY EVENING. A SPOKESWOMAN FOR LAFAYETTE POLICE SAYS 41-YEAR-OLD SANTOS DELGADO WALKED INTO THE ROADWAY FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON AND WAS STRUCK BY A TOYOTA PICKUP TRUCK. DELGADO WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE, WHICH WAS THE 900 BLOCK OF NORTH UNIVERSITY. THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP WAS NOT CITED, BUT AN INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.
A DERIDDER MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR SETTING HIS MOTHER’S RENT HOUSE ON FIRE. THE DERIDDER FIRE DEPARTMENT CALLED IN STATE FIRE MARSHAL DEPUTIES TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF A FIRE AT A HOUSE IN THE 300 BLOCK OF BELL STREET. THEY INTERVIEWED MICHAEL MCCLENDON WHO ADMITTED TO INVESTIGATORS THAT HE SET THE FIRE BECAUSE THERE WAS MOLD IN THE HOUSE. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE BEAUREGARD PARISH JAIL ON A CHARGE OF SIMPLE ARSON.
CROWLEY POLICE ARE STILL INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED OUTSIDE OF A FUNERAL ON SATURDAY. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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A Tulane researcher is looking at pregnancy-associated mortality in the U.S. and Louisiana. The Advocate of New Orleans reports that Maeve Wallace, a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist, has received two grants totaling $2.4 million to study the issue. According to a 2018 report by the United Health Foundation, Louisiana ranked second only to Georgia in maternal mortality. Rates in Louisiana were more than double the national average.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is adapting a program designed to keep athletes in school to ensure that academically accomplished lower-income students don’t drop out. The university says in a news release that its Louisiana Educate pilot program began this semester with 43 freshmen from New Orleans. The university’s vice president for enrollment management says planning began last November when donors from New Orleans proposed a partnership. Dr. DeWayne Bowie says the donors were motivated in part by Louisiana-Lafayette’s “reputation for promoting social mobility.”
LAKE CHARLES MAYOR NIC HUNTER HAS SELECTED SHAWN CALDWELL TO REPLACE RETIRING POLICE CHIEF DON DIXON. CALDWELL WAS ONE OF THREE FINALISTS CHOSEN BY AN APPOINTED ADVISORY PANEL. CALDWELL IS A LAKE CHARLES NATIVE WITH 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE CITY COUNCIL WILL DECIDE WHETHER TO CONFIRM HIM AT THEIR NOVEMBER 21ST MEETING.
RAYNE POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A MAN WANTED IN TWO SEPARATE SHOOTINGS. THE FIRST SHOOTING HAPPENED LAST THURSDAY ON ANN DRIVE AND THE SECOND SHOOTING HAPPENED THE NEXT DAY ON A SCHOOL STREET. OFFICERS OBTAINED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR PAUL WHEELER, WHO’S WANTED ON MULTIPLE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER. ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHERE WHEELER IS LOCATED SHOULD CALL CRIMESTOPPERS AT 232-TIPS.
A NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL IS EXPECTED TO MAKE A COMPLETE RECOVERY AFTER BEING BURNED IN THE FACE, LEFT EAR AND SCALP SATURDAY EVENING. FIRE INVESTIGATORS SAY A PERSON WAS USING GASOLINE ON A SMALL FIRE WHEN THE GAS CONTAINER IGNITED, SETTING HIS JACKET ON FIRE. THE PERSON THEN KICKED THE CONTAINER TOWARD THE FIRE, SPLASHING GASOLINE. THE GIRL HAD BEEN SITTING NEXT TO THE FIRE AND WAS BURNED, BUT THE BURNS WERE NOT LIFE THREATENING.
