11-23-21
CROWLEY POLICE SAY A MAN DIED WHILE IN THEIR CUSTODY OVER THE WEEKEND. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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YESTERDAY, SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES AND LAFAYETTE POLICE ARRESTED A LAFAYETTE MAN IN CONNECTION WITH AN AUGUST HOMOCIDE IN BREAUX BRIDGE. FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD NICOLE HAMILTON WAS FOUND SHOT TO DEATH AUGUST THIRTIETH ON THE MILLS HIGHWAY. FIFTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD LINUS SHELVIN WAS ARRESTED AT A RESIDENCE ON THIRTEENTH STREET IN LAFAYETTE YESTERDAY AND WAS CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER BEFORE BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER, AND HIS BOND HAS NOT YET BEEN SET.
A CARENCRO MAN, WHO WAS IN AN ACCIDENT THURSDAY ON I-TEN IN SAINT MARTIN PARISH, DIED AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL YESTERDAY. FIFTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD WHITNEY BROWN RAN HIS VEHICLE OFF OF I-TEN NEAR MILE MARKER ONE-THIRTEEN AND HIT A BARRIER WALL. BROWN WAS EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE AND TAKEN TO THE HOSPTIAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION, AND EARLY ON MONDAY, STATE POLICE LEARNED HE HAD SUCCUMBED TO HIS INJURIES. STATE POLICE ARE AWAITING THE RESULTS OF TOXICOLOGY TESTS TO DETERMINE IF BROWN WAS IMPAIRED AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.
Louisiana is kicking off $11.3 million in Hurricane Laura housing repair and rebuilding work for Lake Charles while it waits for hundreds of millions in promised federal aid to arrive. Gov. John Bel Edwards and Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter announced the plans yesterday. The dollars largely will pay for home rehabilitation work for low- to moderate-income homeowners. A $1 million share will help landlords rebuild housing if they are willing to rent to low- to moderate-income tenants.
THE LOUISIANA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HELATH IS PROPOSING A RULE THAT WOULD REQUIRE STUDENTS TO GET THE COVID-NINETEEN VACCINE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE PROPOSAL, PARENTS COULD EXEMPT THEIR CHILDREN BY SIGNING A STATEMENT OF EXEMPTION, WITHOUT HAVING TO PROVIDE JUSTIFICATION. STATE REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS ARE COMING OUT AGAINST THE PROPOSAL, CALLING IT AN EXAMPLE OF GOVERNMENT OVEREACH. STATE SENATOR BODI WHITE, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE, SAYS THAT IF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT MOVES FORWARD WITH THE MANDATE, THEY WOULD TAKE ACTION TO SEVERELY AFFECT THEIR BUDGET.
SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE LATEST COVID-NINETEEN NUMBERS FOR LOUISIANA.
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WATERWORKS DISTRICT THREE IN IBERIA PARISH, WHICH INCLUDES THE TOWN OF COTEAU, ARE ADVISING RESIDENTS THERE THAT THEY WILL BE DOING REPAIRS TO THE MAIN WATER LINE TODAY. IT WILL BEGIN AT EIGHT-THIRTY THIS MORNING AND LAST UNTIL TWO-THIRTY THIS AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS MAY NOTICE CHANGES IN WATER PRESSURE AND SOME WATER DISCOLORATION AFTER THE LINES ARE FLUSHED. RESIDENTS WILL BE NOTIFIED OF A BOIL ADVISORY, IF IT BECOMES NECESSARY.
LAST WEEK A JURY FOUND THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD JOHNATHON AUBRY OF LAFAYETTE GUILTY OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER FOR THE KILLING OF HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, SHEREE PATIN WILLIAMS, IN TWENTY-SIXTEEN. ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALAN HANEY TELLS KLFY TV IT WAS INCREDIBLE TO SEE THE REACTION OF THE VICTIM’S FAMILY, WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING FIVE YEARS FOR THE TRIAL. DISTRICT ATTORNEY DON LANDRY SAYS HE HAD NO DOUBT THAT THEY HAD ENOUGH EVIDENCE AGAINST AUBREY TO GET THE FIRST DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION. THE JURY HAD THE OPTION OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER.
