5-16-17
A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot in a first-grade classroom by another student in Moss Bluff. Nobody else was wounded. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said the boy was shot a few minutes before 8 a.m. yesterday. The boy suffered a severe abdominal injury and underwent surgery at Lafayette General Hospital, and was moved to the pediatric icu recovering in critical condition. Mancuso says the loaded gun fell out of a first-grader’s backpack in the classroom, where a second student picked it up and then the gun accidentally went off hitting a third student. Mancuso said neither child will be held responsible because they’re so young. He says the district attorney’s office will decide whether to charge the gun’s owner.
School superintendent Karl Bruchhaus says Moss Bluff Elementary School was holding a field day, and will go forward with a field day schedule for two more grades today.
THE ORIGINAL G2 PROJECT ON THE CALCASIEU SHIP CHANNEL IN CAMERON WAS PROPOSED AS AN $11 BILLION LNG FACILITY, BUT THAT HAS BEEN ADDED TO WITH A PROPOSED ADDITIONAL $12 BILLION PETROCHEMICAL FACILITY. THE TWO SITES ARE EXPECTED TO BRING 6,000 CONSTRUCTION JOBS AND 7OO PERMANENT JOBS. THE COMBINED $23 BILLION PROJECTS ARE BEING CALLED LOUISIANA’S LARGEST INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT AND WILL INCLUDE FOREIGN INVESTORS AND WILL LOOK TO EXPORT NATURAL GAS GLOBALLY.
(AP) Officials say trash service could be suspended for roughly 4,000 rural Lafayette Parish households with delinquent bills. The Advocate reports Lafayette Parish officials and Republic Services announced plans to discontinue services to negligent customers Wednesday. Republic Services has the local contract for residential solid waste. Lafayette Parish spokeswoman Cydra Wingerter says residents with past-due bills will be responsible for no more than 120 days of service, regardless of how long the bills have gone unpaid. Delinquent accounts will ultimately be forwarded to the city-parish attorney’s office, and residents could face fines, up to 30 days in jail, court orders mandating payment, property liens and lawsuits for non-payment. Wingerter says about 4,000 rural accounts are past due out of roughly 26,000 addresses in unincorporated Lafayette Parish.
ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF K.P. GIBSON SAID THE SECOND SUSPECT WANTED FOR A VEHICLE BURGLARY AND HIGH SPEED CHASE ON MAY 11TH HAS BEEN ARRESTED. CLARENCE JAMES CELESTINE JR. , 18 OF LAFAYETTE, WAS ARRESTED BY LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES. CELESTINE IS CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED BURGLARY, AGGRAVATED FLIGHT FROM AN OFFICER AND RECKLESS OPERATION OF A VEHICLE. LAST FRIDAY, THE OTHER SUSPECT, TANNER BONIN OF CROWLEY WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED BURGLARY OF A VEHICLE, ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND CONVICTED FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM.
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LAFAYETTE POLICE CHIEF TOBY AGUILLARD ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THEY HAVE SOLVED A COLD CASE HOMICIDE FROM 2007 THAT WAS REOPENED LAST DECEMBER. ARREST WARRANTS WERE OBTAINED LAST WEEK FOR THREE MEN AND ALL THREE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR THE MURDER OF MALCOLM DAVIS. DAVIS WAS STRUCK AND KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS BY MARCUS SMITH, KENDALL SMITH AND EDWARD WOODS ON THE 200 BLOCK OF JEFFERSON STREET ON AUGUST 10, 2007. THE THREE MEN FLED LAFAYETTE TO RAPIDES PARISH THE DAY AFTER THE MURDER.
(AP) Lawmakers in the Louisiana House backed a proposal aimed at keeping cities from removing Confederate monuments, despite pleas from black colleagues who called the bill “divisive” and “offensive.” After more than two hours of fiery debate, the House voted 65-31 yesterday for Republican Rep. Thomas Carmody’s bill. Following the vote, every black representative left the House floor. The measure would allow the removal of any plaque, statue or other monument on public property commemorating a historic military figure or event only by local voters approval in an election. Carmody’s bill, headed next to the Senate, comes as cities across the South debate the appropriateness of memorials to the Confederacy. New Orleans removed two Confederate-era monuments and intends to take down two more.
National police Week is this week, which honors our police officers serving our communities and also remembers those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Memorial services continues with Sulphur, Westlake, Vinton and DeQunicy holding a joint memorial program at 2 on Wednesday afternoon at Heritage Square Pavilion in Sulphur. Iowa will have a candlelight vigil at 5:30 Thursday afternoon at their headquarters. And Lafayette Parish will have a memorial service at 6:00 Thursday evening at Saint Barnabas on Camellia in Lafayette.
