2-24-21
CROWLEY POLICE RESPONDED TO SEPARATE SHOOTINGS YESTERDAY EVENING THAT INJURED TWO PEOPLE, ONE OF THEM CRITICALLY. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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A DOG WAS KILLED IN A LAFAYETTE HOUSE FIRE YESTERDAY MORNING AT AROUND EIGHT A-M. IT TOOK FIREFIGHTERS ABOUT TEN MINUTES TO BRING THE BLAZE UNDER CONTROL AT THE HOUSE, WHICH WAS LOCATED IN THE FIVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF FOURTEENTH STREET. FOUR PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE AND TWO DOGS MANAGED TO ESCAPE AFTER ONE OF THE OCCUPANTS WOKE AFTER HEARING A NOISE AND NOTICED THE KITCHEN WAS ON FIRE. OFFICIALS DETERMINED THE FIRE STARTED WITHIN AN EXTERIOR WALL NEAR A WATER HEATER CLOSET.
Louisiana and its local governments will only have to pay 10% of the cost of cleanup, fixing public buildings and other public expenses approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Hurricane Laura. FEMA guidelines generally call for state and local governments to pay 25%. The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness said Monday that it has been notified that President Joe Biden ordered an increase in the federal share of public assistance payments. Gov. John Bel Edwards says Biden’s action will improve the state’s ability to protect citizens by reducing the burden of Hurricane Laura emergency response and recovery work.
JENNINGS POLICE ARRESTED A CROWLEY TEENAGER FOR HIS PART IN A SHOOTOUT AT AN ABANDONED HOUSE ON WILBERT D. ROCHELLE AVENUE EARLY MONDAY MORNING. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD LOGAN LEE MEYER HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER. POLICE CHIEF DANNY SEMMES SAY MEYER AND ANOTHER CROWLEY MAN WERE AT THE HOUSE TO MAKE A GUN SALE, BUT SOMETHING WENT WRONG LEADING TO THE SHOOTOUT. THE TWO ATTEMPTED TO FLEE THE SCENE, BUT RAN THEIR VEHICLE INTO A DITCH AND WERE CAUGHT BY POLICE IN A NEARBY FIELD.
DRUG AND ALCOHOL RELATED DEATHS IN LOUISIANA HAVE INCREASED BY TWENTY-FOUR PERCENT SINCE THE CORONOVIRUS PANDEMIC BEGAN. THE SOLUTIONS RECOVERY CENTER IN LAFAYETTE SAYS THE NUMBER OF NEW PATIENTS HAS RISEN BY FIVE PERCENT WHILE THE NUMBER OF RELAPSED PATIENTS ARE UP BY TWENTY PERCENT. ADMINISTRATOR BILL RICHARD SAYS THE ISOLATION HAS LED PEOPLE TO TURN TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL TO COPE. HE TELLS KATC TV THAT THEY HAVE TRANSITIONED TO MORE VIRTUAL TREATMENT, BUT IT’S NOT THE SAME BECAUSE THE FEELINGS AND CONTACT THAT HELP WITH HEALING ARE LOST.
A VIGIL IN ABBEVILLE FOR THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD BRANDON JOHNSON INCLUDED ACTORS PORTRAYING SCENES OF VIOLENCE. JOHNSON WAS KILLED EARLIER THIS MONTH, THE SECOND SON OF LENORA JOHNSON TO DIE FROM GUN VIOLENCE WITHIN A SIX MONTH PERIOD. PASTOR AND ACTIVIST LAWRENCE LEVY SAID AT THE VIGIL THAT THE RESIDENTS OF ABBEVILLE HAVE GROWN NUMB TO MURDERS. HE SAYS IT’S ALMOST A SHOCK TO NOT HAVE A MURDER. LEVY SAYS THE SENSELESS KILLINGS MUST END.
COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS HAVE DROPPED BELOW SEVEN HUNDRED TOTAL. THERE WERE TWENTY-EIGHT FEWER ON TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY NINE. LOUISIANA HAD FIVE HUNDRED FORTY- TWO NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES. THERE WERE TWENTY-SIX MORE DEATHS.
ACADIANA HAD NO NEW REPORTED COVID-NINETEEN CONFIRMED DEATHS. THERE WAS ONE MORE DEATH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, WHICH WAS IN BEAUREGARD PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD FORTY-NINE NEW CASES, INCLUDING TWENTY IN CALCASIEU PARISH. ACADIANA REPORTED FORTY-TWO NEW CASES. ACADIA PARISH HAD THE MOST WITH FOURTEEN.
