11-8-21
IN IBERIA PARISH, A MAN WAS FOUND SHOT TO DEATH INSIDE OF HIS HOME SATURDAY NIGHT. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
VOICER F :23
THE MOTORCYCLIST, WHO WAS KILLED IN AN ACCIDENT ON I-TEN AT MILE MARKER NINETY-FIVE NEAR DUSON IN THE WESTBOUND LANES, HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED. STATE POLICE SAY FIFTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD JAMES W. ROMERO OF SCOTT REAR-ENDED A G-M-C TERRAIN. HE WAS EJECTED FROM THE HARLEY DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE AND PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE DRIVER OF THE G-M-C TERRAIN WAS NOT INJURED. .
Insurance companies are on track to pay at least $10.6 billion to cover Louisiana claims for damage caused by Hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta. That’s according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon. The number could still grow slightly larger. The insurance claim numbers don’t include payments from the federally-run National Flood Insurance Program or the amount people paid for their deductibles.
A PEDESTRIAN WAS KILLED WHEN SHE WAS STRUCK BY A PICKUP TRUCK SATURDAY NIGHT IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH. STATE POLICE SAY THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD KATIE RAE MOTT OF WELSH WAS WALKING IN THE WESTBOUND LANE OF THE I-TEN SOUTH FRONTAGE ROAD JUST WEST OF L-A TWENTY-SIX, WHEN SHE WAS HIT AT AROUND SEVEN-THIRTY THAT NIGHT. MOTT WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE DRIVER WAS PROPERLY RESTRAINED AND DID NOT APPEAR TO BE IMPAIRED, BUT THE ACCIDENT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
A GRAND JURY HAS INDICTED A FRANKLIN MAN WHO IS ACCUSED OF SETTING FIRE TO HIS GIRLFRIEND AND HIS FIVE-YEAR-OLD NEPHEW IN JULY. THE GIRLFRIEND TOLD FIRST RESPONDERS THAT, DURING AN ARGUMENT, FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD DERWIN HAMILTON POURED LIQUID ON HER AND HIS GREAT-NEPHEW AND SET THEM ON FIRE IN THEIR MOBILE HOME. THE NEPHEW DIED IMMEDIATELY AND SHE DIED AFTER SEVEN DAYS IN THE HOSPITAL. ON FRIDAY, THE GRAND JURY INDICTED HAMILTON ON TWO COUNTS OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER.
MORE THAN TWENTY PEOPLE TOOK PART IN A LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT RECRUITING DAY HELD AT THE TUERLINGS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FIELD ON SATURDAY. IN YEAR’S PAST, THERE HAVE BEEN UP TO FIFTY PEOPLE COME OUT TO RECRUITING DAYS, BUT SERGEANT KRIS STRONG, WHO IS THE DEPARTMENT’S RECRUITER, SAYS SHE’S EXCITED ABOUT THE CANDIDATES WHO DID SHOW UP. THE DEPARTMENT, WHICH HAS TWO HUNDRED NINETY OFFICERS, RECENTLY ADDED TWELVE PATROL POSITIONS ON NOVEMBER FIRST. STRONG TELLS THE ADVOCATE THAT SHE FEELS VERY CONFIDENT THAT THOSE WHO CAME OUT HAVE EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO MAKE THOSE TWELVE NEW POSITIONS.
Louisiana taxpayers haven’t cashed more than $5.6 million in state income tax refunds. The money has been sent to the state’s unclaimed property program. Treasurer John Schroder says the money was received from the Department of Revenue and are owed to nearly 22,000 residents and businesses around Louisiana. People who think they may have an unclaimed refund can search online at the treasury department’s website or call the agency at 888-925-4127.
MORGAN CITY POLICE WERE CALLED OUT TO AN AREA ON RAILROAD AVENUE NEAR DITCH AVENUE BECAUSE RESIDENTS THERE HEARD GUNSHOTS EARLY YESTERDAY. THEY FOUND A HOME HAD BEEN HIT BY BULLETS BUT THERE WERE NO INJURIES. THEY ARE ASKING FOR TIPS FROM THE PUBLIC. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE MORGAN CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT DETECTIVES DIVISION.
