12-26-23
THREE PEOPLE WERE SHOT CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN ABBEVILLE. ABBEVILLE POLICE RESPONDED TO A CALL ABOUT GUN SHOTS BEING FIRED AROUND 4:30 CHRISTMAS AFTERNOON AT THE 400 BLOCK OF EIGHTH STREET. ACCORDING TO THE POLICE, SUSPECTS DROVE UP AND OPENED FIRE AT A RESIDENCE ON EIGHTH STREET WOUNDING ALL THREE VICTIMS. POLICE FOUND TWO MALE VICTIMS WOUNDED AT THE SCENE AND WERE LATER NOTIFIED THA THE THIRD VICTIM HAD BEEN RUSHED TO THE H0SPITAL BY FAMILY MEMBERS WITH MORE SERIOUS INJURIES. TWO OF THE THREE SHOT VICTIMS ARE IN CRITICAL CONDITION AT A LOCAL HOPITAL AND THE THIRD WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THIS SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE ABBEVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 893-2511.
AN ABANDONED HOUSE IN SULPHUR CAUGHT FIRE CHRISTMAS DAY. FIREFIGHTERS FROM HOUSTON RIVER FIRE DEPARTMENT ALONG WITH WARD SIX, CARLYSS AND SULPHUR FIRE DEPARTMENTS ARRIVED AT THE 2400 BLOCK OF CHOUPIQUE ROAD AROUND 3:45 CHRISTMAS DAY TO PUT THE FIRE OUT. THE HOUSE WAS HEAVILY DAMAGED. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND ANOTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED IN A VEHICLE CRASH ON I-49 YESTERDAY MORNING. LOUISIANA STATE POLICE TROOP I WAS CONTACTED AROUND 1AM CHRISTMAS MORNING OF A THREE VEHICLE CRASH ON 1-49 NORTHBOUND NEAR MILE MARKER 6 IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. 30-YEAR-OLD TEVIN FORD OF BUNKIE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE BY THE LAFAYTTE PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE. ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, THE CRASH HAPPENED WHEN A 2021 CHEVROLET CORVETTE DRIVEN BY FORD NORTHBOUND ON I-49 AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED, FOR REASONS UNKNOWN, REAR ENDED A VOLVO 18-WHEELER, WHICH WAS ALSO TRAVELING NORTHBOUND CAUSING FORD’S CORVETTE TO STALL IN THE ROADWAY. THE CORVETTE WAS THEN STRUCK BY A NISSAN VERSA TRAVELING NORTHBOUND. FORD WAS EJECTED FROM HIS CORVETTE. HIS PASSENGER WAS TAKEN TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL WITH SERIOUS INJURIES. THE DRIVER OF THE 18-WHEELER HAD MINOR INJURIES, AND THE DRIVER OF THE VERSA HAD NO REPORTED INJURIES. TOXICOLOGY SAMPLES WERE TAKEN FOR TESTING. THE ACCIDENT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
THERE WAS A HOUSE HEAVILY DAMAGED BY FIRE FRIDAY NIGHT IN CARENCRO. SEVERAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS RESPONDED TO THE FIRE CALL AT 105 SIMON LATOUR ROAD IN CARENCRO AROUND 8:10 FRIDAY NIGHT. THEY WORKED TO BATTLE THE FIRE THAT SPREAD FROM A NEARBY SHOP TO THE RESIDENCE. HALF OF THE HOUSE SUSTAINED HEAVY FIRE DAMAGE, BUT THE WHOLE HOME WAS DAMAGED FROM HEAVY SMOKE. EVERYONE MADE IT OUT OF THE HOUSE SAFELY. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
