2-23-23
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE VICTIM OF A SHOOTING ON VERDUN STREET JUST BEFORE ONE A-M YESTERDAY. TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD ABILIO WALDERMAR BRAVO LOPEZ OF LAFAYETTE DIED AT THE SCENE FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND. POLICE ARRESTED THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD JOHNNIE TOLLIVER OF LAFAYETTE FOR FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER. POLICE LEARNED THROUGH THE INVESTIGATION A SECOND PERSON WAS SHOT, WHO WAS TREATED AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL AND IS NOW EXPECTED TO MAKE A FULL RECOVERY.
THE FAMILY OF ERICA HUNT OF OPELOUSAS LAID HER REMAINS TO REST NEARLY SEVEN YEARS AFTER SHE WENT MISSING. ERICA WAS NOT SEEN AGAIN AFTER SHE TOLD HER FAMILY SHE WAS GOINT TO PICK UP FOOD ON JULY FOURTH, TWENTY-SIXTEEN. HER BODY WAS FOUND IN DECEMBER OF TWENTY-EIGHTEEN IN VILLE PLATTE AND THEY WERE POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED BY A DNA LAB IN TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE. HUNT’S RELATIVES TELL KLFY TV THEY HOPE THE BURIAL OF HER REMAINS WILL PROVIDE CLOSURE BUT WILL ALSO CARRY ON HER LEGACY, SHOWING JUSTICE NEEDS TO BE FOUND FOR HER FAMILY AND OTHERS EXPERIENCING THE SAME LOSS.
THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR IS PROPOSING THE FIRST-EVER OFFSHORE WIND LEASE SALE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. THE PROPOSED SALE NOTICE INCLUDES A ONE HUNDRED TWO THOUSAND ACRE AREA OFFSHORE OF LAKE CHARLES. THEY ARE ALSO LOOKING AT TWO AREAS OFFSHORE OF GALVESTON. THE SALE IS PART OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S EFFORTS TO JUMPSTART THE WIND INDUSTRY, POWER HOMES AND CREATE THOUSANDS OF JOBS.
STATE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITIES OF TWO PEOPLE KILLED IN A MOTORCYCLE CRASH IN MOSS BLUFF TUESDAY NIGHT. THEY SAY THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD JEFFERY SPELL JUNIOR OF LAKE CHARLES WAS DRIVING HIS MOTORCYCLE SOUTH AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED ON HIGHWAY ONE-SEVENTY-ONE WHEN HE STRUCK A FORD PICKUP TRUCK TURNING ONTO VICTORIA DRIVE. SPELL AND HIS PASSENGER, THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CONNIE FONTENOT OF LAKE CHARLES, WERE BOTH EJECTED AND PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE DRIVER AND PASSENGER IN THE PICKUP WERE NOT INJURED.
STATE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A WOMAN WHO WAS KILLED IN A FOUR VEHICLE CRASH ON I-TEN BETWEEN DUSON AND SCOTT, THAT LED TO THE CLOSURE OF THE INTERSTATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THEY SAY THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD LINDSEY RAQUEL FONTENOT OF IOWA COLONY, TEXAS REAR-ENDED AN S-U-V ON THE EASTBOUND SIDE, CAUSING BOTH VEHICLES TO GO IN THE MEDIAN. FONTENOT’S VEHICLE CONTINUED INTO THE WESTBOUND LANES WHERE SHE WAS HIT BY A THIRD VEHICLE AND AN EIGHTEEN-WHEELER THAT ENDED UP IN THE MEDIAN. FONTENOT WAS WEARING A SEATBELT BUT WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.
TV TEN’S SYLVIA MASTERS JOINS US NOW WITH AN UPDATE ON A TRIPLE SHOOTING IN BREAUX BRIDGE TUESDAY NIGHT.
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ONE LOUISIANA LAWMAKER IS ATTEMPTING TO PREVENT INSURANCE COMPANIES FROM GIVING WOMEN HIGHER RATES JUST BECAUSE OF THEIR GENDER. HERE’S SYLVIA MASTERS AGAIN.
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ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF K-P GIBSON IS URGING HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS IN ACADIA PARISH TO APPLY FOR ONE OF SEVEN SCHOLARSHIPS BEING AWARDED THROUGH HIS OFFICE. THE SCHOLARSHIPS ARE VALUED AT FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS EACH. ONE OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS IS FROM THE LOUISIANA SHERIFF’S SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM WHILE THE OTHER SIX ARE FROM THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE. SENIORS CAN GET APPLICATIONS THROUGH THEIR HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELOR OR BY CALLING HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR KIM MILLER AT THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE OR BY EMAILING KIM-DOT-MILLER AT A-P-S-O-DOT-ORG.
