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4-5-21

DUSON POLICE CHIEF KIP JUDICE IS IN INTENSIVE CARE AT OUR LADY OF LOURDES HOSPITAL AFTER FALLING ILL OVER THE WEEKEND.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS THE DETAILS.

 

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ONE PERSON WAS SHOT LAST NIGHT AT THE GO BEARS GAS STATION IN GRAND COTEAU JUST AFTER EIGHT-FIFTEEN.  GRAND COTEAU POLICE SAY TWO PEOPLE WERE FIGHTING IN THE STORE AND A THIRD PERSON WAS TRYING TO BREAK IT UP WHEN THE SHOOTING HAPPENED.  THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL AND HIS CONDITION HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED.  ONE PERSON SEEN RUNNING FROM THE SCENE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.

 

Louisiana’s treasurer says the state is holding more than $700,000 that has so far gone unclaimed by people and businesses affected by the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Treasurer John Schroder says that’s the worth of class action settlement checks for people in the state that have never been cashed. The amounts range from 8 cents to more than $68,000. People can search for unclaimed property at latreasury-dot-com.

 

CROWLEY POLICE WERE ABLE TO COAX A LOADED A-K-FORTY-SEVEN RIFLE FROM A TEN-YEAR-OLD BOY SATURDAY.  THE BOY WAS ONE OF FOUR SIBLINGS IN THE BACK OF A VEHICLE AT DAIRY QUEEN WHILE THEIR FATHER, WHO WAS FROM OBERLIN, WAS OVERDOSING IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT.  WHEN POLICE ARRIVED, THE WIFE TOLD THEM COCAINE AND FENTANYL WERE IN A CUP HOLDER, AND THEY FOUND TWO HANDGUNS ON THE FLOOR AND THE TEN-YEAR-OLD HOLDING THE RIFLE.  POLICE CHIEF JIMMY BROUSSARD SAYS THE SITUATION WAS SCARY FOR THE CHILD BUT POLICE OFFICERS SPOKE TO HIM CALMLY AND GAINED HIS TRUST.

 

ONE PERSON WAS SHOT DURING A FIGHT IN LAFAYETTE THAT INVOLVED A GROUP OF PEOPLE.  IT HAPPENED ON SAMPSON STREET LAST NIGHT AND THE PERSON WHO WAS SHOT IS LISTED IN STABLE CONDITION.  POLICE SAY THE VICTIM IS REFUSING TO COOPERATE WITH POLICE.  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS OR NINE-ONE-ONE.

 

TWO ABBEVILLE WOMEN WERE KILLED IN A TWO CAR CRASH AT THE INTERSECTION OF L-A NINETY-TWO AND THIRTEEN IN ACADIA PARISH.  ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, FORTY-YEAR-OLD NICOLE MARIE SUSAK (SOO sak) WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON L-A THIRTEEN WHEN SHE HIT A HONDA ODYSSEY, WHOSE DRIVER HAD FAILED TO STOP AT A STOP SIGN.  SUSAK WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE WHILE HER PASSENGER, FIFTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD MARY LEMAIRE, DIED LATER AT THE HOSPITAL.  THE DRIVER AND PASSENGER IN THE HONDA SUSTAINED MINOR INJURIES.

 

A new complaint by a conservative Republican is alleging that Louisiana’s top GOP House and Senate leaders are engaging in improper political activities through a nonprofit they created to promote their agenda. Michael Lunsford is asking the Louisiana Board of Ethics to investigate whether Senate President Page Cortez and House Speaker Clay Schexnayder are violating campaign finance laws with their organization Leading Louisiana Forward. The organization is run by Republican political consultant Lionel Rainey. Rainey defended the nonprofit as complying with all laws.

 

LAKE CHARLES POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED NEAR THE PRIEN LAKE MALL LATE FRIDAY NIGHT, WHICH LEFT THREE PEOPLE WOUNDED.  THE MANAGER OF THE FIERY CRAB SAYS ONE OF THE SHOTS WENT THROUGH A DOOR. HE TELLS KPLC TV THAT THE RESTAURANT WAS CLOSED AT THE TIME, BUT SEVERAL EMPLOYEES WERE INSIDE, THOUGH NO ONE WAS HURT.  ONE PERSON, MICHAEL ROUSSEL, WHO LIVES ON HALE STREET, ESTIMATED AROUND FIFTEEN TO TWENTY SHOTS WERE FIRED.