12-19-22
A LAFAYETTE FAMILY OF FIVE HAS BEEN DISPLACED FROM THEIR HOME AFTER A DUPLEX FIRE. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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A WOMAN WANTED IN A NEW IBERIA HOMOCIDE HAS TURNED HERSELF IN. THE FEMALE VICTIM WAS SHOT FRIDAY MORNING BEFORE NINE A-M IN THE SEVENTEEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF BRIANNA DRIVE AND LATER DIED AT THE HOSPITAL. AFTER COLLECTING EVIDENCE AND INTERVIEWING MULTIPLE WITNESSES, ARREST WARRANTS WERE OBTAINED FOR TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD KAILIN RENEE LIVINGSTON. SHE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
STATE POLICE RESPONDED TO TWO FATAL CRASHES FORTY-FIVE MINUTES APART IN ALLEN PARISH FRIDAY. AT AROUND ONE-FIFTEEN IN THE AFTERNOON, EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD PHILLIP L. VEAZEY OF OBERLIN, FOR AN UNKNON REASON, TRAVELED INTO A DITCH ON L-A TEN WEST OF CALLAHAN ROAD. HE WAS EJECTED FROM HIS G-M-C SIERRA WHEN IT OVERTURNED AND HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THEN AT AROUND TWO, THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD KATLIN WAYNE POWELL OF DERIDDER WAS DRIVING A PETERBILT BEHIND A CHEVY TAHOE ON L-A ONE TWELVE WHEN THE DRIVER OF THE TAHOE STOPPED TO MAKE A LEFT TURN. POWELL SLAMMED ON HIS BRAKES TO AVOID HITTING THE TAHOE, WHICH CAUSED A UTILITY POLE ON HIS TRAILER TO SHIFT FORWARD INTO THE CAB, STRIKING AND KILLING POWELL. THE TAHOE SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE FROM ONE OF THE DISLODGED UTILITY POLES AND THE DRIVER WAS INJURED. THE CRASHES REMAIN UNDER INVESTIGATION. TOXICOLOGY SAMPLES WERE TAKEN FROM THE DRIVERS AND SUBMITTED FOR ANALYSIS.
THE LOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD SENT OUT MORE THAN TWENTY SOLDIERS TO SUPPORT COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY TORNADOS LAST WEDNESDAY. THEY ALSO SENT OUT ENGINEER ASSESSMENT TEAMS TO SURVEY THE DAMAGE TO THE AFFECTED PARISHES, WHICH INCLUDED IBERIA, JEFFERSON, ORLEANS, SAINT CHARLES AND UNION PARISHES. OPERATIONS INCLUDED INVENTORYING, LOADING COMMODITIES, TRANSPORTING TARPS AND WATER, AND UNLOADING COMMODITIES AT DROPOFF LOCATIONS. IN ALL, MORE THAN SIXTEEN THOUSAND BOTTLES OF WATER WERE DISTRUBITED AND OVER TWO THOUSAND TARPS.
LAST WEEK, FORMER LAFAYETTE CITY COURT JUDGE MICHELLE ODINET APPEARED BEFORE A THREE MEMBER DISCIPLINARY BOARD BECAUSE OF VIDEO THAT CAME OUT LAST YEAR OF ODINET USING A RACIAL SLUR IN HER HOME, ACCORDING TO THE ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER. ODINET RESIGNED FROM THE BENCH AFTER THE RELEASE OF THE VIDEO. ODINET’S ATTORNEY TOLD THE ADVOCATE THAT THE COMMITTEE STATED SUSPENSION OF ODINET’S LEGAL LICENSE WOULD BE REASONABLE, BUT DISBARMENT WAS NOT SUGGESTED. HE SAYS HE EXPECTS IT WILL BE THIRTY TO SIXTY DAYS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE GIVES THEIR RECOMMENDATION.
THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM IS ASKING RESIDENTS TO REVIEW A PROPOSED STUDENT ASSIGNMENT PLAN AND OFFER COMMENTS ON IT. IT’S PART OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM’S EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE UNITARY STATUS IN THEIR NEARLY SIXTY-YEAR-OLD DESEGREGATION CASE. IF THEY ACHIEVE UNITARY STATUS, THEY WOULD NO LONGER BE UNDER FEDERAL SUPERVISION. THE ATTACHMENT FOR REVIEWING THE PLAN IS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT SAINT MARTIN SCHOOLS-DOT-ORG AND THEY ASK FOR ALL COMMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED BY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER TWENTY-EIGHTH.
Investigators say a prisoner died in a Saint Mary Parish courthouse on Monday after grabbing a guard’s gun and fatally shooting himself in the head. Louisiana State Police investigators say 34-year-old Chad Williams of Berwick initiated the struggle with a sheriff’s deputy and got control of the gun. The shooting near a courtroom at the courthouse in Franklin led to a lockdown. Troopers say findings will be turned over to the district attorney for review once the investigation is complete.
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