12-18-23
OPELOUSAS POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A HOMOCIDE THAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT ON SOUTH ACADEMY STREET. OFFICERS WORKING SECURITY AT CLUB HEELS HEARD A GUNSHOT AND WENT OUT IN THE PARKING LOT TO FIND A MAN WHO SUFFERED A FATAL GUNSHOT WOUND. THE MAN’S IDENTITY HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS AT NINE-FOUR-EIGHT-TIPS.
THE FAMILY OF FREDRICKA STEVENS OF LAFAYETTE WERE ON HAND SATURDAY AS HER BODY WAS LAID TO REST. STEVENS WAS SHOT AND KILLED JUST AFTER TWO A-M ON DECEMBER SECOND ON TENTH STREET. LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED A SUSPECT IN THE SHOOTING BUT ARE HOPING A PHOTO THEY RELEASED THIS WEEK WILL HELP CLOSE THE CASE. EACH FAMILY MEMBER TOLD KLFY TV THE FIGHT TO GET JUSTICE FOR FREDRICKA IS NOT OVER, AND THEY NEED IT TO HAVE CLOSURE.
A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider its ruling setting a deadline for the Louisiana Legislature to enact a new congressional map. A lower court last year found that the state’s current political boundaries dilute the power of its Black voters. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Friday denied a request by Louisiana’s Republican secretary of state and other state officials to have a larger set of judges rehear the Nov. 10 decision by a three-judge panel. That panel said if the Legislature does not pass a new map by mid-January, then the lower court should conduct a trial and decide on a plan for the 2024 elections, though a lower court judge later extended the deadline.
STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A TWO-VEHICLE CRASH THAT LEFT A LAKE CHARLES MAN DEAD. DANIELLE DUNCAN REPORTS.
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A CRASH ON I-TEN FRIDAY MORNING LEFT A LAFAYETTE MAN DEAD. THE DRIVER OF A CAR STRUCK THE REAR OF AN EIGHTEEN-WHEELER THAT WAS PARKED ON THE SHOULDER NEAR THE RAYNE EXIT. FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER ROBERT FISHER, WHO WAS SITTING IN THE PASSENGER SEAT WITHOUT A SEATBELT ON, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE DRIVER SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES AND POLICE ARE AWAITING THE RESULTS OF TOXICOLOGY TESTS TO DETERMINE IF IMPAIRMENT WAS A FACTOR.
A FEDERAL JURY TRIAL BEGINS TODAY IN A MAN’S LAWSUIT ALLEGING EXCESSIVE FORCE BY LAFAYETTE POLICE. RAYNALDO MARKEIGH SAMPY JUNIOR FILED THE LAWSUIT IN MAY OF TWENTY-NINETEEN ALLEGING HIS CONSTITIONAL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED AT SID’S ONE STOP CONVENIENCE STORE. HIS ATTORNEY’S ALLEGE THAT SAMPY WAS REPEATEDLY PULLED TO THE GROUND, PINNED AND KNELT ON. THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT AND SIX POLICE OFFICERS WERE NAMED AS DEFENDANTS IN THE TRIAL, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO LAST THREE TO FOUR DAYS, ACCORDING TO THE A-C-L-U, WHICH JOINED THE LAWSUIT.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says the state’s fall inshore shrimp season closes Monday in all state inside waters except for a few locations east of the Mississippi River. In a news release, the department says recent sampling indicates that the average white shrimp size within large portions of state inside waters is smaller than the minimum possession count allowed by law. Officials say a closure is needed to protect the small white shrimp in these waters and provide an opportunity for growth. All state outside waters will remain open until further notice.
A CHURCH POINT MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE AFTER CAUSING A HEAD-ON COLLISION IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH EARLY SATURDAY. FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH RICHARD CROSSED THE CENTERLINE WHILE TRAVELING NORTHON L-A ONE-EIGHTY-TWO AND STRUCK A SOUTHBOUND CAR. THE DRIVER OF THE CAR, THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD LEDISHA ROBERTS, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE, WHILE RICHARD, WHO WASN’T WEARING A SEATBELT, SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES. STATE POLICE SAY RICHARD SUBMITTED A BREATH SAMPLE THAT WAS OVER THE LEGAL LIMIT FOR INTOXICATION.
