2-22-23
A BICYCLIST WAS SHOT ON JANVIER STREET IN LAFAYETTE PARISH YESTERDAY. THE MALE VICTIM, WHOSE IDENTITY HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED, WAS THROWN FROM HIS BIKE INTO A DITCH. VALERI PONSETI OF THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS DEPUTIES TOOK A MAN INTO CUSTODY FOLLOWING THE SHOOTING. SIXTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD JAMES MCMILIAN WAS CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT TWO-HUNDRED-FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A TRIPLE SHOOTING. POLICE CHIEF ALBERT LEBLANC SAYS THREE PEOPLE WERE SHOT ON WILD CHERRY LANE LAST NIGHT. THEY WERE ALL TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. LEBLANC WOULD NOT RELEASE THEIR CONDITIONS.
TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN A TWO VEHICLE CRASH IN MOSS BLUFF LAST NIGHT. ONE OF THE VEHICLES WAS A MOTORCYCLE. STATE POLICE SAY A MAN AND WOMAN WERE KILLED IN THE CRASH WHICH HAPPENED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY ONE-SEVENTY-ONE AND VICTORIA DRIVE. STATE POLICE HAVE NOT RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF THE VICTIMS OR THE DETAILS OF THE CRASH.
AN AUDIT HAS FOUND THAT THE FORMER HEAD OF THE STATE BOARD THAT LICENSES NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS SPENT NEARLY NINETEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ON ITEMS DEEMED TO BE PERSONAL IN NATURE. THE AUDIT STATES THAT BY USING PUBLIC FUNDS FOR PERSONAL PURCHASES, MARK HEBERT MAY HAVE VIOLATED STATE LAWS. THE AUDIT SAYS HEBERT RETURNED TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS WORTH OF ITEMS BOUGHT THROUGH OFFICE CREDIT CARDS. THE CHAIR OF THE LOUISIANA BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF NURSING FACILITY ADMINISTRATORS SAYS THEY WILL SEEK RESTITUTION OF THE REMAINING MONEY.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT LEFT ONE PERSON DEAD. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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A PATTERSON MAN WAS ARRESTED MONDAY IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING THAT LEFT THREE PEOPLE WOUNDED INCLUDING A CHILD. THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE ON THE HIGHWAY NINETY BRIDGE NEAR THE BERWICK EXIT IN SAINT MARY PARISH LAST FRIDAY NIGHT. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ADONTE WILLIAMS HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH FOUR COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. BERWICK POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD DA’MARI WATKINS OF BERWICK AND A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD ON THE SAME CHARGES.
A MULTI-VEHICLE CRASH LED TO THE CLOSURE OF I-TEN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. IT HAPPENED JUST AFTER FOUR P-M BETWEEN THE DUSON AND SCOTT EXITS. THE INTERSTATE WAS CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. IT WAS REOPENED BEFORE EIGHT P-M.
THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A PERSON WHO WAS SHOT SUNDAY NIGHT. NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD ASHTON MONEY WAS KILLED IN THE SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED IN THE THIRTY-FOUR-HUNDRED BLOCK OF GENERAL PATTON STREET. THE SUSPECT IN THE SHOOTING, NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD CAIDEN SHERIDAN, WAS FOUND AND ARRESTED MONDAY EVENING BY THE LAKE CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT. HE WAS SENT BACK TO IBERIA PARISH WHERE HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE PARISH JAIL ON A CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
