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LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR TWO SUSPECTS WHO STOLE A VEHICLE LATE LAST NIGHT AND LED OFFICERS ON A CHASE THROUGH THE PARISH. DANIELLE DUNCAN REPORTS.
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HAIL PELTED PARTS OF ACADIA PARISH YESTERDAY AS STORMS PASSED THROUGH THE AREA. THERE WERE REPORTS OF GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL-SIZED HAIL IN THE RICHARD AND BRANCH AREAS. SOME RESIDENTS HAD DAMAGE TO THEIR VEHICLES. THERE WERE ALSO REPORTS OF HAIL SOUTH OF IOTA.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry approved 11 bills Tuesday, including expanding death row execution methods, concealed carry of a gun without a permit and legislation that effectively eliminates parole for most jailed in the future. The governor’s signing of bills into law ceremony follows a short crime-focused special session where the Legislature passed a slew of policies, which will overhaul elements of the criminal justice system in a state grappling with one of the highest rates of incarceration and violent crime in the country.
JENNINGS POLICE ARE SEEKING THE PUBLIC’S HELP IN FINDING A MAN WHO CHASED HIS GIRLFRIEND INTO WALMART, ARMED WITH A KNIFE, BEFORE DRIVING AWAY IN HER CAR. CHARLES WOODS JUNIOR IS ACCUSED OF FORCING HIS GIRLFRIEND INTO THE CAR, A WHITE TWO THOUSAND SIX CHRYSLER PACIFICA, BUT AS HE BEGAN TO DRIVE AWAY, SHE JUMPED OUT OF THE CAR AND RAN INTO THE STORE WITH WOODS CHASING HER. WOODS IS WANTED ON SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING ARMED ROBBERY. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON HIS WHEREABOUTS IS ASKED TO CALL THE JENNINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THE SUBJECT OF AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING WAS ARRESTED FOLLOWING HIS RELEASE FROM THE HOSPITAL. THIRTY-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL BRUMLEY OF SCOTT WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON TWO COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED ASSAULT UPON A POLICE OFFICER. BRUMLEY WAS SHOT BY A SCOTT POLICE OFFICER SATURDAY NIGHT WHILE HE WAS ALLEGEDLY WIELDING A KNIFE, ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE. ANOTHER OFFICER FIRST TRIED TO USE A TASER ON BRUMLEY BUT THE DEPLOYMENT WAS INEFFECTIVE.
A MAMOU MAN WAS KILLED WHEN HIT BY A UNION PACIFIC TRAIN LATE SATURDAY NIGHT JUST WEST OF NORTH FOURTH STREET IN EUNICE. POLICE HAD TO USE FINGERPRINTS TO IDENTIFY THE MAN AS TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CAMERON FOURNERAT. AN INVESTIGATION REVEALED FOURNERAT HAD BEEN SLEEPING ON THE TRACKS. EUNICE POLICE SAY THAT HE WOKE UP BUT WAS UNABLE TO GET OUT OF THE WAY IN TIME.
LOUISIANA’S PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION IS COMING UP MARCH TWENTY-THIRD AND BUT VOTERS CAN VOTE EARLY STARTING THIS WEEKEND. DANIELLE DUNCAN HAS DETAILS.
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OPELOUSAS POLICE HAVE RELEASED PHOTOS OF A YOUNG MALE POINTING A GUN AT A CONVENIENCE STORE CLERK IN HOPES SOMEONE WILL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY HIM. IT HAPPENED ON THE NIGHT OF FEBRUARY TWENTY-THIRD AT ANDY’S QUICK STOP ON EAST BLOCH STREET. THE CLERK HAD ASKED THE SUSPECT TO PROVIDE IDENTIFICATION TO PURCHASE TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND THE SUSPECT PULLED OUT A GUN AND SAID THAT WAS HIS IDENTIFICATION. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON THE INCIDENT IS ASKED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS AT NINE-FOUR-EIGHT-TIPS.
