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MELVILLE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A WOMAN WHO FIRED SHOTS AT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH YESTERDAY. THEY SAYS THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD NICHOL KILCREASE OF MELVILLE DROVE UP TO THE CHURCH, WHERE FOUR PEOPLE WERE DOING LANDSCAPE WORK, AND BEGAN SHOOTING BEFORE DRIVING AWAY. THERE WERE NO INJURIES AND POLICE HAVE NOT RELEASED A MOTIVE IN THE SHOOTING. KILCREASE, WHO WAS ARRESTED ABOUT THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES AFTER THE SHOOTING, FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING FOUR COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A MAN WHO WAS SEEN WALKING AROUND AN APARTMENT COMPLEX IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT CARRYING A RIFLE. A DOORBELL CAMERA FROM ONE OF THE APARTMENTS CAPTURED FOOTAGE OF THE MAN, WHICH HAS BEEN RELEASED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. CORPORAL KEN HANDY SAYS IT’S NOT ILLEGAL TO CARRY A FIREARM IN LOUISIANA BUT IT’S A BIT ALARMING DUE TO THE SUSPICIOUS NATURE OF THE INCIDENT. HANDY SAYS THEY WANT TO IDENTIFY THE INDIVIDUAL TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN HIS HEAD AT THAT POINT IN TIME.
Lawmakers in Louisiana have passed a slew of bills that are poised to overhaul parts of its criminal justice system. The measures are spurred by violent crimes plaguing urban areas and a new tough-on-crime governor. Lawmakers gathered at the Capitol for two weeks for a special legislative session that ended yesterday. The bills they passed range from expanding death row execution methods to charging 17-year-olds as adults to eliminating parole for most.
AN IOWA MAN WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH AT AROUND TEN-THIRTY WEDNESDY NIGHT. STATE POLICE SAY TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD ADRIAN RUBIO PASCUAL WAS DRIVING A CHEVY IMPALA ON I-TEN AT MILE MARKER SEVENTY-EIGHT WHEN HE EXITED THE ROAD, ENTERED A DITCH AND FLIPPED THE VEHICLE SEVERAL TIMES. PASCUAL WAS EJECTED AND PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THIS IS THE SIXTH FATAL CRASH THAT STATE POLICE TROOP I HAS INVESTIGATED THIS YEAR RESULTING IN SIX DEATHS.
A RAYNE MAN IS DEAD AFTER HE WAS HIT BY A CAR IN TERREBONNE PARISH. DANIELLE DUNCAN REPORTS.
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THE LAFAYETTE PARISH JAIL IS DEALING WITH OVERCROWDING AND THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS UNDERSTAFFED, ACCORDING TO A REPORT BY KADN TV. AS A RESULT, SOMETIMES THOSE BEING BOOKED ARE HANDCUFFED TO A BENCH UNTIL BED SPACE BECOMES AVAILABLE. ALSO, SOME SUSPECTS HAVE BEEN BOOKED AND THEN IMMEDIATELY RELEASED. KADN TV REPORTS THAT THEY’VE BEEN TOLD THAT SOME OF THOSE BOOK-AND-RELEASE CASES INVOLVE THOSE FACING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGES.
THE VERMILLION PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM IS DEALING WITH A BUS DRIVER SHORTAGE. THEY’VE BEEN PUTTING OUT BANNERS ADVERTISING FOR NEW BUS DRIVERS. SUPERVISOR OF TRANSPORTATION KEN SMALL SAYS IT’S BEEN TOUGH FINDING PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO TAKE IT AS A CAREER. HE TELLS KLFY TV THAT THEIR BUS DRIVERS ARE GETTING OLDER AND THEY NEED TEN TO FIFTEEN NEW DRIVERS TO BE READY FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.
RAYNE POLICE ARE ASKING THE PUBLIC’S ASSISTANCE IN FINDING A MAN ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING. THIRTY-YEAR-OLD BRYAN A. WILSON IS WANTED ON CHARGES OF SIMPLE KIDNAPPING AND DOMESTIC ABUSE BATTERY. THE KIDNAPPING HAPPENED ON EAST BRANCHE STREET AND ENDED WEDNESDAY IN CROWLEY. A FEMALE MANAGED TO ESCAPE FROM A VEHICLE AFTER BEING HELD FOR MORE THAN SEVEN HOURS. ANYONE WHO KNOWS THE WHEREABOUTS OF WILSON IS ASKED TO CALL THE TIPS LINE AT SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS.
