4-21-23
A THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN VILLE PLATTE. POLICE CHIEF AL PERRY THOMAS TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE GIRL WAS SHOT UNINTENTIONALLY AT THE PARK VIEW APARTMENT COMPLEX. SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE GIRL’S IDENTITY OR THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE SHOOTING HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED.
THE YOUNGSVILLE CITY COUNCIL HAS APPOINTED A REPLACEMENT FOR KAYLA REAUX, WHO RESIGNED LAST MONTH OVER ALLEGATIONS OF SPECIAL TREATMENT BY THE POLICE. THE COUNCIL ANNOUNCED THAT LOGAN LANOO WILL TAKE HER SEAT ON THE COUNCIL. HE IS A NATIVE OF NEW IBERIA WHO HAS LIVED IN YOUNGSVILLE FOR SEVEN YEARS. LANOO WAS CHOSEN FROM AMONG ELEVEN CANDIDATES.
A BILL HAS ADVANCED IN THE LEGISLATURE THAT WOULD CRACK DOWN ON ALLEGED SLUM LORDS. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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A SERIAL DINE AND DASHER HAS HIT MULTIPLE RESTAURANTS IN THE LAKE CHARLES AREA. THAT MEANS HE ORDERS A MEAL, DINES AND LEAVES BEFORE PAYING. THE DINE AND DASHER HAS VICTIMIZED MORE THAN TWENTY RESTAURANTS INCLUDING NINA P’S TWICE. A SERVER AT NINA P’S, KAYLEIGH SEMAR, TOLD KPLC TV THAT SHE WAS SURPRISED BECAUSE THE MAN LOOKED LIKE AN AVERAGE GUY WHO CAME IN ACTING LIKE HE WAS WAITING FOR A FRIEND.
HOME SALES IN ACADIANA SPIKED LAST MONTH INDICATING A REBOUND IN THE MARKET. THERE WERE FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY HOUSES SOLD, TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN OF WHICH WERE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH, A TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT INCREASE OVER FEBRUARY. TOTAL SALES FOR THE FIRST QUARTER WERE THIRTY PERCENT BELOW LAST YEAR, WHICH WAS THE LARGEST FIRST QUARTER EVER, ACCORDING TO BILL BAQUE OF MARKET SCOPE CONSULTING. THE NUMBERS WERE JUST BELOW THE FIGURES OF TWENTY-NINETEEN, BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, AND HIGHER THAN IN TWENTY-EIGHTEEN.
A DUSON WOMAN IS OFFERING A TWO THOUSAND DOLLAR REWARD IN AN EFFORT TO FIND THE PERSON OR PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING HER TWO DONKEYS THAT SHE NAMED FRED AND ASHLEY. KELLI BRISCOE TELLS KLFY TV THAT WHEN SHE ARRIVED AT HER FIFTY ACRE PASTURE OFF OF RICELAND ROAD IN ACADIA PARISH, SHE FOUND THE MALE DONKEY DEAD AND THE FEMALE DONKEY ALIVE BUT SUFFERING A BULLET WOUND TO THE HEAD. THAT DONKEY WAS TAKEN TO THE L-S-U VETERINARY HOSPITAL WHERE THEY ARE WAITING FOR THE SWELLING TO GO DOWN BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE THE BULLET, WHICH IS BLINDING HER LEFT EYE. ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF K-P GIBSON SAYS IT MAKES NO SENSE TO SHOOT AT ANIMALS THAT POSE NO THREAT, AND THOSE RESPONSIBLE COULD BE CHARGED WITH CRUELTY TO ANIMALS AND ILLEGAL DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM.
EARLY VOTING FOR THE APRIL TWENTY-NINTH MUNICIPAL GENERAL ELECTION IS ALMOST OVER. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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CHURCH POINT POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING TWO SHOOTINGS THIS WEEK. ONE HAPPENED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THE CORNER OF ROSELLA AND BEAUGH STREETS WHERE SPENT SHELL CASINGS WERE FOUND BUT NOTHING OR NO ONE APPEARED TO BE HIT BY THE BULLETS. THE OTHER SHOOTING HAPPENED ON SOUTH BROADWAY NEAR THE HOUSING AUTHORITY WHERE A PERSON SHOT SEVERAL ROUNDS AT A VEHICLE. THE CHURCH POINT POLICE ISSUED A STATEMENT ASKING FOR THE PUBLIC’S HELP TO STOP “THESE RIDICULOUS ACTS OF VIOLENCE BEFORE A CHILD OR FAMILY MEMBER GETS SERIOUSLY HURT.”
