3-1-22
CHURCH POINT POLICE SEIZED FIVE HANDGUNS IN SEVERAL HOURS DURING ITS PARADE OVER THE WEEKEND. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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STUDENTS IN VERMILLION PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW HAVE THE OPTION OF NOT WEARING THEIR MASKS WHILE RIDING THE SCHOOL BUS. THE DECISION WAS ANNOUNCED FRIDAY. SUPERINTENDENT TOMMY BYLER SAYS THEY ARE FOLLOWING CDC GUIDELINES. THE CDC, AS OF FRIDAY, NO LONGER REQUIRES THE WEARING OF MASKS ON BUSES OR VANS OPERATED BY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOL SYSTEMS.
A MAN KILLED IN A FIERY CRASH IN ALLEN PARISH ON FEBRUARY NINTH HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED. FIFTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD RICHARD TODD FONTENOT OF KINDER WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH AT THE INTERSECTION OF SHERMAN HOUSTON AND KINDER CEMETARY AT AROUND EIGHT-FIFTEEN THAT NIGHT. AT THE TIME, THE STATE POLICE DID NOT IDENTIFY FONTENOT. THEY HAD TO WAIT FOR THE ALLEN PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE FOR A POSITIVE I-D.
STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF LANDRY IS TRYING TO STOP A FEDERAL RULE THAT WOULD AFFECT THE TRANSPORT OF LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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MORGAN CITY POLICE ARRESTED A MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY STABBED ANOTHER PERSON IN THE NECK SUNDAY EVENING. FORTY-YEAR-OLD JARRED WOMACK OF MORGAN CITY REPORTEDLY LEFT THE SCENE OF THE STABBING IN THE AREA OF PARK ROAD BUT WAS ARRESTED LATER THAT NIGHT. WOMACK HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. THE VICTIM WAS AIRLIFTED TO A HOSPITAL OUT OF THE AREA AND WAS IN CRITICAL BUT STABLE CONDITION AS OF MONDAY MORNING.
THE OPELOUSAS FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO A FIRE AT THE FORMER SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ON BURR STREET. FIRE CHIEF CHARLES MASON SAYS THE FIRE WAS LIMITED TO ONE CLASSROOM AND WAS EXTINGUISHED. THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE IS TRYING TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE. THE SCHOOL HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR YEARS BUT HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
LAKE CHARLES POLICE HAVE MADE NO ARRESTS IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING IN A WALMART PARKING LOT. IT HAPPENED ON THE EVENING OF FRIDAY, FEBRUARY EIGHTEENTH. ONE PERSON WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH NON-LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES. DEPUTY CHIEF FRANKLIN FONDEL SAYS THEY ARE CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE THE SHOOTING.
TWO PEOPLE FROM CROWLEY WERE KILLED IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION SUNDAY NIGHT ON HIGHWAY THIRTY-FIVE NEAR POINTE NOIR ROAD. ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, TWENTY-YEAR-OLD DERRICK CEASAR WAS DRIVING A BUICK CENTURY WHEN HE CROSSED THE CENTER LINE. THE DRIVER OF A FORD EXPEDITION COMING THE OPPOSITE WAY GOT ONTO THE SHOULDER TO TRY TO AVOID THE BUICK BUT WAS HIT HEAD-ON. CEASAR AND A PASSENTER IN HIS VEHICLE, TWENTY-YEAR-OLD TWYON THORN, WERE BOTH KILLED WHILE THE PEOPLE IN THE FORD EXPEDITION SUFFERED MODERATE TO MINOR INJURIES. THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION AND STATE POLICE AWAIT THE RESULTS OF TOXICOLOGY TESTS.
