2-18-22
AN OPELOUSAS FAMILY SAYS THEY ARE LUCKY TO BE ALIVE AND UNHARMED AFTER THEIR HOME WAS SHOT AT FOR THE SECOND TIME IN JUST A WEEK. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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TWO TEENAGE BROTHERS HAVE BEEN INDICTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A TEENAGE GIRL LAST SUMMER. SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD JA’NYA HEBERT OF LAFAYETTE WAS SITTING IN A CAR AT AROUND ONE A-M ON A SUNDAY MORNING WHEN SHOTS WERE FIRED AT THE VEHICLE AND SHE WAS HIT IN THE BACK. HER FAMILY AT THE TIME SAID THAT INVESTIGATORS TOLD THEM SHE WAS NOT THE TARGET OF THE SHOOTING. SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD ROTREVIAN SIMPSON AND SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD NATREVIAN SIMPSON WERE BOTH INDICTED ON SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGES.
The mayor of Elton has resigned, citing issues with the current town council. Mayor Roger D. “Tony” Laughlin has served as mayor for 12 nonconsecutive years. He announced his resignation after submitting a letter to the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office on Feb. 4. Laughlin told the American Press that monthly council meetings have gotten out of hand with a lot of foul language and arguing interrupting the public meetings.
State lawmakers appear close to agreement on new boundary lines for Louisiana’s six congressional districts. As the special redistricting session of the Legislature nears its end, it remains unlikely that Louisiana lawmakers will do anything to alter the balance of power in the U. S. House. The proposed maps, while accounting for loss of population in north Louisiana, keep districts very similar to their current configuration. On Thursday, some central Louisiana senators pushed for a plan that won’t divide Rapides Parish.
TWO VILLE PLATTE MEN WERE ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY FIRING SHOTS AT HOME, NEARLY HITTING A SLEEPING A CHILD. TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD REMI CLAYTON BROWN AND THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD JIMMY PAUL GUILLORY FACE FIVE COUNTS EACH OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND AGGRAVATED ASSAULT BY DRIVE-BY SHOOTING. A RESIDENCE IN THE ONE THOUSAND BLOCK OF PEACH TREE LANE WAS STRUCK MULTIPLE TIMES ON JANUARY TWENTY-FIFTH. EVANGELINE PARISH SHERIFF CHARLES GUILLORY SAYS ONE OF THE TWO MEN ADMITTED OPENING FIRE ON THE HOME WITH A MEDIUM-CALIBER FIREARM.
A LAFAYETTE GRAND JURY HAS INDICTED TWO MEN FOR THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A MAN AT A CAR WASH IN OCTOBER. KEYON ALEX LEFT BEHIND A WIFE AND TWO YOUNG CHILDREN WHEN HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED AT THE CAR WASH, LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF ERASTE LANDRY AND CAJUNDOME BOULEVARD. THE TWO MEN INDICTED WERE TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD EDWARD FELTON JUNIOR OF ARNAUDVILLE AND THIRTY-YEAR-OLD SAM BROWN OF LAFAYETTE. THE TWO FACE CHARGES OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
The Calcasieu parish schools superintendent is leaving his post after eight years in the role. Superintendent Karl Bruchhaus announced his retirement Wednesday. Effective June 30, Bruchhaus leaves after 34 years serving Louisiana public school systems, 26 of them with Calcasieu Parish. The Calcasieu Parish School Board will soon begin the search for the next superintendent but Bruchhaus said he will have limited involvement in the process.
THREE ACADIANA PARISHES ARE PARTICIPATING IN A PILOT PROGRAM THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY SENTENCES ARE HANDED OUT FOR D-W-I OFFENDERS. UNDER THE PROGRAM, FIRST OR SECOND OFFENSE D-W-I CONVICTIONS IN ACADIA, LAFAYETTE AND VERMILLION PARISHES WILL REQUIRE THE OFFENDER TO UNDERGO A SCREENING THROUGH THE COMPUTERIZED ASSESSMENT AND REFERRAL SYSTEM, OR CARS, AS A CONDITION FOR PROBATION. THE CARS SCREENING IS SUPPOSED TO HELP JUDGES IN DETERMINING THE OFFENDERS’ TREATMENT NEEDS, WITH THE GOAL OF REDUCING THE LIKELIHOOD OF A SUBSEQUENT D-W-I VIOLATION. RECENT STATISTICS SHOW THAT FORTY PERCENT OF VEHICLE FATALITIES IN LOUISIANA WERE ALCOHOL-RELATED.
