3-4-24
A SUSPECT IN A STOLEN VEHICLE LED ACADIA PARISH DEPUTIES ON A HIGH-SPEED CHASE YESTERDAY. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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A PIZZA HUT ON AMBASSADOR CAFFERY IN LAFAYETTE SUFFERED HEAVY DAMAGE DUE TO A FIRE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. WHEN LAFAYETTE FIRE FIGHTERS ARRIVED JUST AFTER ONE-THIRTY A-M, FIRE WAS COMING THROUGH THE ROOF AND, ONCE THEY GOT IN THE BUILDING, THEY NOTICED FIRE SPREADING IN A SPACE ABOVE THE CEILING. THE FIRE FIGHTERS CAME EARLIER, AT AROUND NINE-FIFTEEN SATURDAY NIGHT, WHEN EMPLOYEES REPORTED SMOKE SEEPING FROM AIR VENTS AND A SMELL AND LIGHT HAZE. AFTER INVESTIGATING AN AIR CONDITION UNIT, POWER WAS SHUT OFF TO IT AND THE RESTAURANT WAS CLEARED OUT.
A WOMAN IN A HOME IN LAKE CHARLES WAS KILLED IN A DRIVE BY SHOOTING AT AROUND SEVEN-FORTY-FIVE SATURDAY NIGHT. MULTIPLE ROUNDS WERE FIRED FROM A VEHICLE ON WEST TANK FARM ROAD IN LAKE CHARLES. SHERIFF TONY MANCUSO SAYS THEY HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE THE VICTIM, SIXTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD ANNETTE TOUVELL, WAS A TARGET OF THE SHOOTING. ANOTHER HOME IN THE AREA WAS ALSO STRUCK BY GUNFIRE BUT NO ONE IN THE HOME WAS INJURED.
NEW IBERIA POLICE CAPTURED AN ESCAPEE FROM A JUVENILE FACILITY SATURDAY MORNING. THEY RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF SOMEONE CARRYING A GUN IN THE NINE HUNDRED BLOCK OF MISSISSIPPI AND FOUND THE JUVENILE, WHO FLED ON FOOT. WHILE RUNNING FROM THE OFFICERS, THE JUVENILE, WHO IS FOURTEEN, TOSSED A FIREARM AND, AFTER BEING CAPTURED, HE WAS FOUND TO HAVE NEARLY FORTY-GRAMS OF SUSPECTED MARIJUANA IN HIS POSSESSION. IT WAS AFTER THE ARREST THAT POLICE DISCOVERED HE HAD ESCAPED FROM A JUVENILE FACILITY.
STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT INVOLVED A SCOTT POLICE OFFICER. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED JUST BEFORE TEN-THIRTY SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF ANGLER DRIVE. ONE PERSON WHO SUFFERED A GUNSHOT WOUND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT BUT NO OFFICERS WERE HURT. MORE INFORMATION WILL BE RELEASED WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE.
NEARLY FORTY-THOUSAND JOBS WERE CREATED LAST YEAR IN LOUISIANA, ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY AUTHORED BY U-L LAFAYETTE ECONOMIST GARY WAGNER. HE SAYS IT’S THE LARGEST INCREASE THE STATE HAS SEEN SINCE NINETEEN-NINETY-SEVEN. EXPERTS SAY IT’S PRIMARILY DUE TO THE STATE’S ONGOING RECOVERY FROM THE PANDEMIC. MOST OF THE JOB GROWTH CAME IN THE HEALTH CARE, CONSTRUCTION AND STATE GOVERNMENT SECTORS AND MAINLY IN THE BATON ROUGE AND NEW ORLEANS METRO AREAS.
A MAN FROM MAURICE WAS KILLED AFTER DRIVING OFF THE ROAD AND SLAMMING HIS TRUCK INTO A TREE. STATE POLICE TROOPER THOMAS GOSSEN SAYS IT HAPPENED FRIDAY ON L-A NINETY-TWO NEAR ALLEN ROAD IN VERMILLION PARISH. TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD PARKER ROMERO WAS NOT WEARING HIS SEAT BELT AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. A BLOOD SAMPLE WAS TAKEN TO DETERMINE IF ROMERO WAS IMPAIRED AND THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
A CARENCRO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WAS SHOT AND KILLED WHILE GETTING OFF OF A SCHOOL BUS FRIDAY, JUST AFTER THREE P-M. HE’S BEEN IDENTIFIED AS EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JAYLON JOINER. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED ON BRADFORD DRIVE, JUST OUTSIDE THE CARENCRO CITY LIMITS. LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES SUSPECT SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING AND AT LEAST ONE PERSON HAS BEEN DETAINED.
