4-15-22
BROUSSARD POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A MAN IN CONNECTION TO THE SHOOTING DEATH OF NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD TERRELL MARSHAUN FONTENETTE JUNIOR OF IBERIA PARISH. HE WAS FOUND DEAD WEDNESDAY IN A VEHICLE LOCATED IN THE PARKING LOT OF AN EXXON GAS STATION ON BONIN ROAD. TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAZJHALUN CHARLES OF JEANERETTE WAS APPREHENDED YESTERDAY ON A CHARGE OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. INVESTIGATORS ARE WORKING LEADS TO IDENTIFY ANY OTHER POSSIBLE SUSPECTS AND THEY ARE SEARCHING FOR A VEHICLE THAT MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE HOMOCIDE.
A EUNICE MAN WAS FOUND GUILTY FOR THE SECOND TIME FOR SECOND DEGREE MURDER FOR STABBING, BURNING AND KILLING HIS WIFE IN SEPTEMBER OF TWENTY-TWELVE. ROBERTY LEE HEARD WAS ORIGINALLY FOUND GUILTY IN TWENTY-SEVENTEEN AFTER A JURY, ON A VOTE OF TEN-TO-TWO, RETURNED A VERDICT OF GUILTY. BECAUSE THE U-S SUPREME COURT FOUND NON-UNANIMOUS JURY VERDICTS VIOLATED THE U-S CONSTITUTION, HEARD WAS GIVEN A SECOND TRIAL, AND THIS TIME THE VERDICT WAS UNANIMOUS. HE WILL BE SENTENCED ON APRIL TWENTY-EIGHTH.
A STATE SENATE COMMITTEE HAS ADVANCED A BILL TO THE FULL SENATE THAT WOULD DESIGNATE THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN BRIDGE AS A HIGHWAY SAFETY CORRIDOR. THAT DESIGNATION WOULD ALLOW THE STATE TO DOUBLE FINES FOR SPEEDING ON THE BRIDGE, PUT UP MORE SPEED LIMIT SIGNS, AND INSTALL CAMERAS TO TRACK DRIVER’S SPEEDS. SENATOR PAGE CORTEZ OF LAFAYETTE, THE SPONSOR OF THE BILL, SAYS IT’S INTENT IS TO SLOW DOWN DRIVERS, NOT ENRICH THE STATE. HE SAYS THE BILL CAME ABOUT BECAUSE OF HIS EXPERIENCES COMMUTING BETWEEN LAFAYETTE AND BATON ROUGE.
A SIXTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD MAN AND TWO DOGS WERE KILLED IN A FIRE WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN STARKS. FIREFIGHTERS FOUND THREE STRUCTURES ON FIRE WHEN THEY ARRIVED IN THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF SCALES ROAD JUST BEFORE NINE P-M. A BODY WAS FOUND IN ONE OF THE BURNED BUILDINGS, BELIEVED TO BE THE HOMEOWNER, AND TWO DOGS WERE ALSO FOUND DEAD. THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING.
LAFAYETTE POLICE SHOT AND KILLED A MAN AS THEY WERE TRYING TO ARREST HIM FOR SHOOTING A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL, WHO IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. POLICE FOUND NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD TREVON BONNER OF LAFAYETTE IN THE OVERNIGHT HOURS OF THURSDAY MORNING AND TRIED TO ARREST HIM, BUT HE BARRICADED HIMSELF IN A HOME ON PAUL BREAUX AVENUE. WHILE POLICE TRIED TO BREACH THE DOOR TO DELIVER A PHONE SO THEY COULD NEGOTIATE WITH HIM, SHOTS WERE FIRED FROM THE RESIDENCE AT POLICE, WHO RETURNED FIRE STRIKING BONNER, WHO WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND LATER DIED. STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING.
THE ANNUAL HOUSEHOLD WASTE DAY FOR IBERIA PARISH WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY, APRIL THIRTIETH FROM EIGHT-THIRTY TO TWELVE-THIRTY. ITEMS CAN BE DROPPED OFF AT THE PARKING LOT BEHIND THE IBERIA PARISH COURTHOUSE. FOR A LIST OF ITEMS THAT WILL BE ACCEPTED AND THAT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED, GO TO THE IBERIA PARISH GOVERNMENT WEB PAGE OR THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE. ONLY IBERIA PARISH RESIDENTS CAN PARTICIPATE, AND I-D’S WILL BE CHECKED.
VOTERS IN LOUISIANA HAVE ANOTHER ELECTION COMING UP AT THE END OF THE MONTH, AND THE EARLY VOTING PERIOD FOR IT STARTS THIS WEEKEND. SYLVIA MASTERS GIVES US THE DETAILS.
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A SHOOTING HAPPENED IN LAFAYETTE THURSDAY JUST BEFORE EIGHT P-M AT MOORE PARK. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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