3-15-23
JUDE PELTIER OF CECILIA WAS WITH A GROUP OF THIRTY AT WALK-ON’S IN BROUSSARD SATURDAY NIGHT, INCLUDING CHILDREN FROM A YOUTH BASEBALL TEAM, WHEN A FIGHT BROKE OUT AND A MAN PULLED OUT A GUN. PELTIER TELLS KLFY TV HE THOUGHT AT FIRST THE NOISE WAS CREATED BY KIDS PLAYING UNTIL HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW SCREAMED “A GUN, GET DOWN,” AND HIS GROUP GOT UNDERNEATH THE TABLE. THEY EVENTUALLY MADE THEIR WAY TO THE KITCHEN WHILE OTHERS WENT OUTSIDE TO GET AWAY. BROUSSARD POLICE ARRESTED TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD LATAVIAN LOCKS OF NEW IBERIA FOR ILLEGAL CARRYING OF A FIREARM AND TERRORIZING.
A BODY FOUND OVER THE WEEKEND IN BREAUX BRIDGE TURNED OUT TO BE THE MAN WHO WAS THE FOCUS OF A SEARCH PARTY IN NEW IBERIA SATURDAY. THE BODY OF TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD DEVONTE COLAR OF NEW IBERIA WAS FOUND ON PRAIRIE HIGHWAY SHORTLY BEFORE ONE SATURDAY. SHERIFF BECKET BREAUX SAYS THE DEATH IS BEING INVESTIGATED AS A HOMOCIDE. COLAR WAS REPORTED MISSING BY HIS FAMILY ON FEBRUARY TWENTY-SECOND.
A TWO-YEAR-OLD BOY, WHO WAS PLAYING AT THE END OF HIS DRIVEWAY ON BOWERS STREET IN WELSH, WAS STRUCK BY A PASSING PICKUP TRUCK MONDAY EVENING. THE BOY WAS AIRLIFTED TO A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL WHERE HE IS IN STABLE CONDITION WITH A LACERATED LIVER AND A FRACTURED PELVIS. POLICE MADE CONTACT WITH THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP, WHO SAID HE WAS UNAWARE HE HAD HIT ANYONE. A FULL REPORT WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE TO DETERMINE IF ANY CHARGES WILL BE FILED.
Longtime Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that he will not seek reelection in October. Donelon, a Republican, has been thrust into the spotlight during the state’s ongoing property insurance crisis. The announcement came during an update on an incentive program designed to entice more insurers to Louisiana. A dozen homeowners insurance companies have fled Louisiana and another dozen went insolvent following devastating hurricanes in 2020 and 2021.
THE BODY OF A SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS FOUND AFTER FLAMES ERUPTED IN HER SOUTH REFINERY STREET HOME. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW, THE CITY OF CROWLEY’S FINANCIAL AUDIT, DUE AT THE END OF FEBRUARY, WILL BE LATE. MAYOR CHAD MONCEAUX TELLS KATC TV THE AUDITORS HAD TROUBLE ACQUIRING THE INFORMATION THEY NEEDED FROM THE CITY TO DO THE AUDIT, BECAUSE OF RECORD-KEEPING ISSUES. MONCEAUX SAYS HE AND THE NEW CONTRACT C-P-A ARE WORKING WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND AUDITORS TO REMEDY THE SITUATION. HE SAYS ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IS THE HEAVY TURNOVER IN THE CITY CLERK’S POSITION, AS THEY’VE GONE THROUGH SIX CITY CLERKS IN A YEAR’S TIME.
A POWER OUTAGE IS PLANNED FOR SOME JEFFERSON DAVIS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CUSTOMERS TODAY BEGINNING AT NINE A-M. THE OUTAGE WILL ALLOW ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE WORK TO BE DONE AT THE MICHIGAN WISCONSIN SUBSTATION, ACCORDING TO OFFICIALS. THEY EXPECT THE OUTAGE TO LAST APPROXIMATELY SIX HOURS. THE AREAS AFFECTED INCLUDE CREOLE, OAK GROVE AND LITTLE CHENIER.
WARRANTS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR FOUR ADULTS AND A JUVENILE, WHO WERE ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN A SHOOTING LAST MONTH AT THE FAMILY DOLLAR STORE AND ZAZA’S HOOKAH LOUNGE ON VETERAN’S MEMORIAL DRIVE IN ABBEVILLE. WHEN OFFICERS ARRIVED ON THE SCENE OF THE SHOOTING, THEY FOUND PEOPLE YELLING AND SCREAMING, ATTENDING TO GUNSHOT VICTIMS AND CARS LEAVING. THE FIVE ARE EACH WANTED FOR FOUR COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND ONE COUNT OF ILLEGAL USE OF WEPONS OR DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTALITIES. THE FOUR ADULTS THAT ARE WANTED ARE TWENTY-YEAR-OLD KALEN CHRISTOPHER CORMIER, TWENTY-YEAR-OLD KIRBY JARMALL WOODS, TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD RODERICK KEITH GUIDRY JUNIOR, AND TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD TRE’VON TYREEK ARDOIN.
