11-18-21
A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY, WHO WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD TUESDAY AFTER GETTING OFF A SCHOOL BUS AND WALKING TO HIS HOME IN ABBEVILLE, IS RECOVERING. HIS NAME IS ALANTREY LEVY AND ALLEN WASHINGTON, WHO CALLS HIMSELF THE BOY’S FATHER FIGURE, TELLS KATC TV THAT ALANTREY IS DOING AS WELL AS CAN BE EXPECTED CONSIDERING HE SUFFERED A GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEAD. HIS MOTHER LAKASHA LEVY SAYS SHE FOUND OUT ABOUT THE SHOOTING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA. THE FAMILY SAYS THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE PROGRAMS OR ANY KIND OF CHANGES THAT WOULD REDUCE VIOLENCE IN ABBEVILLE.
THE STATE SUPREME COURT HAS AGREED TO HEAR ORAL ARGUMENTS IN A CASE SEEKING TO END VACCINE MANDATES AT OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER. ATTORNEY JIMMY FAIRCLOTH, WHO REPRESENTS EMPLOYEES IN THE LAWSUIT AGINST THE MANDATE, SAYS THE COURT AGREED TO AN EXPIDITED REVIEW OF THE RULINGS IN THE OCHSNER CASE. APPEALS WERE FILED AFTER A JUDGE REJECTED THE LAWSUIT ALTOGETHER. THE CASE WILL BE HEARD ON DECEMBER SEVENTH.
Louisiana’s health department is recommending that anyone 18 and older get a coronavirus vaccine booster if they’ve already been immunized. The agency says that would strengthen protection against COVID-19 as other parts of the country see upticks in the illness. The new guidance issued Wednesday from the Department of Health suggests adults who completed a two-dose Pfizer or Moderna vaccine series get a booster if their last shot was six or more months ago and adults who received the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine two or more months ago. The broadened recommendations come as Louisiana is seeing its lowest number of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations since the pandemic’s earliest days.
AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD MAN, WHO WAS SHOT IN LAKE CHARLES SATURDAY NIGHT, DIED FROM HIS INJURIES ON TUESDAY EVENING. CALCASIEU PARISH DEPUTIES WERE CALLED TO A HOME ON JULIA STREET WHERE THEY FOUND THE VICTIM, JAYDEN P. RAMIREZ OF LAKE CHARLES, WHO WAS AIRLIFTED TO A HOSPITAL OUT OF TOWN IN CRITICAL CONDITION. POLICE LATER LEARNED THAT A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL, WHO WAS RAMIREZ’ FRIEND, WAS THE ALLEGED SHOOTER. THE CHARGES AGAINST HER HAVE BEEN UPGRADED TO SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
STAFF FROM GEESEY FERGUSON FUNERAL HOME ARE TRYING TO REPLACE COPPER PLAQUES STOLEN FROM THE GRAVES OF VETERANS BACK IN APRIL. FUNERAL DIRECTOR TIGER ISTRE SAYS ABOUT A HALF DOZEN PLAQUES WERE STOLEN FROM WOODLAWN CEMETARY IN CROWLEY. HE TELLS KATC TV THAT THEY ARE ATTEMPTING TO FIND THE STOLEN PLAQUES AND WORKING WITH THE VETERAN’S ADMINISTRATION TO REPLACE THEM. FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MICHELLE LACOMBE WAS ARRESTED AFTER SHE WAS FOUND WITH SEVERAL PLAQUES, BUT POLICE CHIEF JIMMY BROUSSARD SAYS THEY COULDN’T CHARGE HER FOR STEALING WITHOUT PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF SOME KIND.
ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST DEGREE MURDER TRIAL OF THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD JONATHAN AUBREY, THE JUDGE HAD HIM REMOVED FROM THE COURTROOM BECAUSE OF HIS OUTBURSTS. AUBRY IS ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS GIRLFRIEND SHEREE WILLIAMS AT A HOME IN NORTH LAFAYETTE IN THE SUMMER OF TWENTY-SIXTEEN. HIS LAWYERS ARGUE THAT THE DEATH OF WILLIAMS IS A CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER, NOT FIRST DEGREE MURDER, AND THEY CLAIMED SHE CAME AT AUBRY FIRST WHILE HIGH ON METH AND COCAINE. JUDGE SCOTT PRIVAT DENIED A REQUEST BY AUBRY TO LET HIM REPRESENT HIMSELF, SAYING HE WOULD ALMOST GUARANTEE A CONVICTION IF HE DID SO.
Energy companies have offered a combined $192 million for drilling rights on federal oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico in the first government lease sale under President Joe Biden. Shell, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and other companies bid on tracts totaling nearly 2,700 square miles.
A MOTHER AND SON HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH ON DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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