12-29-15
ST. MARY PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO A CALL AT A TRAILER OFF OF DUMESNIL ROAD IN ASHTON SUNDAY NIGHT TO FIND A MAN WITH GUNSHOT WOUNDS. WHILE POLICE WERE SECURING THE SCENE SHOTS WERE FIRED FROM THE DIRECTION OF THE TRAILER. A SPECIAL RESPONSE TEAM WAS CALLED IN TO APPREHEND THE GUNMAN. THE MAN FOUND WITH THE GUNSHOT WOUNDS IS IN STABLE CONDITION IN THE HOSPITAL. TWO OTHERS ARE IN THE HOSPITAL. THE GUNMAN IS RECOVERING WITH AN UNDISCLOSED CONDITION, AND A SHEFIFF’S DEPUTY IS IN STABLE CONDITION RECOVERING FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND.
LIONEL GUILLORY, 62 FROM WELSH, WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY BY JEFFERSON DAVIS SHERIFF’S OFFICERS AFTER HE FIRED A GUN OUT HIS FRONT DOOR, REFUSING TO COME OUT. POLICE WERE CALLED TO MARTIN ROAD ABOUT A DISTURBANCE BETWEEN GUILLORY AND HIS WIFE. THEY TRIED TALKING GUILLORY TO SURRENDER AND EVENTUALLY ENTERED THE HOME USING NON LETHAL ROUNDS AND BALLISTIC ENTRY SHIELDS. GUILLORY DID HAVE SOME MINOR INJURIES FROM GLASS SHATTERING WHEN HE SHOT AT HIS FRONT DOOR.
A SECOND VICTIM IN A SHOOTING AT A LAFAYETTE APARTMENT HAS DIED, JULIE DARCY HAS THE DETAILS.
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AP Louisiana State Police say the death toll is now five from a wreck last week in which a passenger train hit a car in New Iberia. One occupant of the car remains hospitalized. Master Trooper Brooks David said in a news release Sunday night that 49-year-old Stephen Leblanc of New Iberia died Saturday. David says 12-year-old Chase Day died Friday. Both were passengers in a car that was stopped on train tracks off Louisiana Highway 88 when the Amtrak train came through about 6 p.m. last Tuesday. News outlets report that Day’s twin brother was also critically injured and remained hospitalized. The driver, 70-year-old Phyllis Leblanc, and 12-year-old girls Jayla Daigle and Trinity Schmidt died at the scene. The crew and 119 passengers all escaped injury.
(AP) Louisiana State Police Troop I will implement DWI “No Refusal” checkpoints in Lafayette Parish. Louisiana State Police tell us “No Refusal” will begin today and will continue through the New Year’s holiday weekend. Troopers will be patrolling the highways during the holiday week for drivers suspected of driving while impaired. For those who are suspected and refuse to submit to a chemical test, a search warrant for a blood or urine sample will be submitted. State police say they are implementing the checkpoints due to a nationwide trend during holiday periods when alcohol consumption increases. Troopers are urging citizens to report possible impaired drivers or road hazards.
(AP) The company responsible for a decade-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico will hold a public meeting next month to disclose details of its efforts to stop chronic slicks from forming off Louisiana’s coast. The Jan. 20 forum in Baton Rouge was a requirement of Taylor Energy Co.’s settlement in September with environmental groups, which accused the company of withholding information about the leak. In 2004, waves whipped up by Hurricane Ivan triggered an underwater mudslide that toppled a Taylor-owned platform and buried a cluster of its wells. Oil is still leaking at the site more than 11 years later, with slicks often stretching for miles. Federal regulators estimate the leak could last a century or more if left unchecked.
