12-27-21
ONE PERSON IS DEAD AFTER A SHOOTING HAPPENED IN LAFAYETTE LATE LAST NIGHT. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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A JEANERETTE MAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED FRIDAY MORNING ON THE CHITIMACHA TRIBE’S RESERVATION. CHITIMACHA POLICE CHIEF HAL HUTCHINSON SAYS CHARLES FOUND ANOTHER MAN AT HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND’S HOME, PROMPTING AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN THE TWO. BOTH MEN PULLED OUT GUNS AND CHARLES WAS SHOT AND KILLED. THE OTHER MAN, COURTLAND J. PHILLIPS, WAS ARRESTED AND BOOKED INTO THE SAINT MARY PARISH JAIL ON A CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
A HOUSTON MAN LED AUTHORITIES ON A ONE HUNDRED MILE CHASE FRIDAY AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY SHOT AT A WOMAN ON I-TEN IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH. JENNINGS POLICE CHIEF DANNY SEMMES SAYS THE WOMAN WAS INJURED BY A FRAGMENT FROM INSIDE HER VEHICLE. SEMMES NOTIFIED AGENCIES TO THE EAST ABOUT THE WHITE FORD TRUCK THAT TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD CAMERON PRESTON WAS DRIVING AND STATE POLICE SPOTTED IT AT THE WESTERN ENTRANCE OF THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN. DEPUTIES FROM IBERVILLE AND WEST BATON ROUGE PARISHES JOINED THE CHASE THAT ENDED WHEN PRESTON CRASHED HIS TRUCK AFTER EXITING THE INTERSTATE NEAR PORT ALLEN.
THE NUMBER OF COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS IN LOUISIANA HAS DOUBLED WITHIN THE LAST WEEK. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS THE DETAILS.
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LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE FOUND THE VEHICLE AND THE ALLEGED DRIVER WHO DAMAGED THE CEMETARY AT SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHEDRAL. IT HAPPENED IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS FRIDAY WHEN A LARGE TRUCK DROVE INTO A GATE ON CONVENT STREET, DAMAGING THE GATE AND SEVERAL GRAVES. THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE DROVE AWAY AFTER HITTING THE GATE. RONNEZ JERMAUL SANDERS JUNIOR OF LAFAYETTE WAS CITED FOR DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION, CARELESS OPERATION AND HIT-AND-RUN.
A Louisiana appeals court has upheld a man’s attempted murder conviction for stabbing a stranger who threw a beer can at him during an argument outside a truck stop casino in Lake Charles. The American Press reports that the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal rejected arguments that DeWayne Sylvester Sr.’s conviction by a split jury in 2017 was unconstitutional under a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The Lake Charles man is serving 15 years after being convicted of attacking Gerald Carter in February 2016. Sylvester and a child had stopped to use the restroom.
Louisiana is doubling cash payments available to poor families through its welfare programs next year in the first increase in more than two decades. The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services said the new payment amounts will boost benefits to the national average. They will begin in January. About 1,500 households receive cash assistance through the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program, and 1,300 households receive kinship care subsidies for relatives caring for children whose parents don’t live in the home.
ONE PERSON WAS SHOT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ON SOUTH STERLING STREET IN LAFAYETTE. POLICE OFFICERS RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF A SHOOTING IN PROGRESS AT THREE THIRTY AND, WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND A GUNSHOT VICTIM. THAT PERSON WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL AND IS EXPECTED TO RECOVER. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING SHOULD CALL LAFAYETTE POLICE OR CRIMESTOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO TIPS.
