12-23-19
ONE MAN WAS WOUNDED WHEN GUNFIRE BROKE OUT AT THE BEAU SOLEIL APARTMENTS ON MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR DRIVE IN LAFAYETTE BEFORE 1:30 A-M SUNDAY MORNING. THE 28-YEAR-OLD MAN, WHOSE NAME HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED, WAS STRUCK MULTIPLE TIMES. HE IS LISTED IN STABLE CONDITION AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL. CORPORAL BRIDGETTE DUGAS OF THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THE VICTIM DID NOT PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION ON SUSPECTS AND NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE.
THREE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A LAKE CHARLES MAN. TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD BRACKUS GUILLORY WAS FOUND AFTER HE HAD BEEN SHOT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF BRENTWOOD AND TENNESSEE STREETS AT AROUND ONE A-M SATURDAY AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE LATER DIED. CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES HAVE ARRESTED 21-YEAR-OLD KASHEEL TOMLINSON, TWENTY-YEAR-OLD HAKEEM SMITH AND 18-YEAR-OLD MARKEYA JACKSON. A FOURTH PERSON, 24-YEAR-OLD TYLER GUILLORY OF LAKE CHARLES, WHO HAD NO CONNECTION TO THE SHOOTING, WAS ALSO ARRESTED AFTER MARIJUANA, METH, CRACK AND STOLEN GUNS WERE FOUND IN HIS HOUSE.
AUTHORITIES IN IBERIA PARISH HAVE MADE TWO ARRESTS IN CONNECTION WITH A MAN WHO WAS SHOT TO DEATH. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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Louisiana utility regulators are studying ways to handle a coming increase in monthly electric bills tied to Entergy’s building of new electricity generating plants. The Louisiana Public Service Commission directed its staff to look at enlarging use of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency assistance programs. The commission’s staff also will review the implications of allowing industrial customers to fend for themselves by seeking better electricity prices on the open market or letting plants and refineries make their own power. Entergy says it needs to eventually spend an estimated $10 billion to $12 billion to replace its units, costs passed on to customers.
WHEN STUDENTS RETURN FROM CHRISTMAS BREAK TO MARTIAL F. BILLEAUD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN BROUSSARD, THEY WILL NOTICE NO CONSTRUCTION CREWS. THE SCHOOL WAS OPENED LAST AUGUST BUT THE CREWS WERE STILL WORKING ON A NEW CLASSROOM WING AS WELL AS THE LIBRARY, THE AUDITORIUM AND ON A PERIMETER FENCE. PRINCIPAL CHRISTY HAYES SAYS THE CREWS WRAPPED UP MAJOR CONSTRUCTION EARLIER THIS MONTH AND ARE NOW PUTTIN ON THE FINAL TOUCHES. THE NEW WING HAS FOUR CLASSROOMS, TWO FOR PRE-K AND THE OTHERS NOT YET DESIGNATED.
ACADIAN AMBULANCE WILL BE REVITALIZING THE FORMER DIMMICK SUPPLY COMPANY BUILDING ON ENTERPRISE BOULEVARD IN LAKE CHARLES AND TURNING IT INTO A NATIONAL E-M-S BUILDING AND MAINTENANCE FACILITY. ACADIAN AMBULANCE VICE PRESIDENT MIKE BURNEY SAYS THEY WILL BE TRAINING A LOT OF PEOPLE AS MEDICS AND PARAMEDICS AT THE FACILITY. LAKE CHARLES MAYOR NIC HUNTER ANNOUNCED THAT THE BUILDING WILL BE THE HUB FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED LOCAL JOBS AND AN INCUBATOR OF WORKFORCE TRAINING FOR HUNDREDS AND MAYBE THOUSANDS OF LOCAL JOBS TO COME. THE BUILDING IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY THIS SUMMER.
A historical marker is planned for the community of Henry. The Acadian Museum of Erath says the marker will be installed Dec. 29 in front of land where Henry High School stood from 1896 until 2009. It was the first accredited high school in Vermilion Parish. The marker’s front describes the history of the community and the school.
LOUISIANA IS NUMBER NINE ON ANOTHER BAD LIST, THIS TIME CONCERNING DRUNK DRIVING DEATHS. ACCORDING TO SAFEWISE-DOT-COM, LOUISIANA IS NINTH AMONG STATES FOR MOST DRUNK DRIVING DEATHS, WITH FOUR-POINT-SIX-FOUR DEATHS PER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE. NUMBER ONE ON THE LIST IS MONTANA, WHICH HAS SEVEN-POINT-FOUR-FOUR IMPAIRED DRIVING DEATHS PER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE. SAFEWISE SAYS THAT DURING THE NEW YEAR’S HOLIDAY, AN AVERAGE OF FORTY-THREE-POINT-FIVE PERCENT OF THE U-S POPULATION BINGE DRINKS.
