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MILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN LAFAYETTE PARISH WAS PUT ON LOCKDOWN YESTERDAY WHILE VERMILLION PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES SEARCHED FOR A MAN, WHO WAS CARRYING A LONG GUN IN THE AREA OF KIRK AND MORTON ROADS. THE SUSPECT WAS EVENTUALLY CAPTURED AFTER HE WAS SHOT BY OFFICERS. STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE SHOOTING, AND HAVE NOT RELEASED MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT IT. THEY DID SAY THE MAN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL TO BE TREATED FOR NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES.
RESPONDING TO REPORTS OF A SUSPICIOUS MAN AT AN R-V PARK ON TV TOWER ROAD IN FENTON, JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES FOUND A MAN WITH A GUN AND CLAIMING TO HAVE BEEN BITTEN BY A SNAKE. CHIEF DEPUTY CHRIS IVEY SAYS THE MAN GAVE A FAKE NAME AND DISAPPEARED INTO A WOODED AREA. THE MAN, 43-YEAR-OLD LARRY T. HAMPTON OF THAYER, MISSOURI WAS EVENTUALLY CAPTURED YESTERDAY MORNING AFTER A FOUR HOUR MANHUNT. HE FACES SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON.
IN KAPLAN, THREE MEN WERE ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY ROBBING A JUVENILE AT GUNPOINT. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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House Republican lawmakers are advancing a rewritten budget proposal that would spend hundreds of millions less next year than Gov. John Bel Edwards wants. The spending plan would protect the TOPS college tuition program by making cuts to health care. The more than $28 billion operating budget proposal received backing from the House Appropriations Committee in a 17-5 vote Monday. The plan would spend $235 million less in state tax dollars than an income forecasting panel projects Louisiana will receive.
THE IDENTITY OF A MAN, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE SATURDAY NIGHT AROUND MIDNIGHT, HAS BEEN RELEASED. CORPORAL KARL RATCLIFF WITH LAFAYETTE POLICE SAYS 23-YEAR-OLD GEORGE FORD OF NEW IBERIA WAS KILLED AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY GOT INTO AN ALTERCATION WITH SEVERAL PEOPLE. THERE HAS BEEN NO ARREST IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING, BUT 18-YEAR-OLD DEIONDRA BENJAMIN OF ST. MARTINVILLE WAS ARRESTED AFTER HE WAS SEEN SHOOTING A GUN WHILE FLEEING THE SCENE. RATCLIFF SAYS BENJAMIN CONFESSED TO SHOOTING THE GUN WHILE RUNNING, AND HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER FOR SHOOTING INTO A CROWD OF PEOPLE.
INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF A HOUSE FIRE IN DERIDDER SUNDAY NIGHT. WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED, 69-YEAR-OLD DENNIS MORGAN TOLD THEM HIS WIFE WAS STILL IN THE HOUSE. FIREFIGHTERS FOUND HER BODY IN THE LIVING ROOM, AND IT WAS LATER DETERMINED THAT THE FIRE BEGAN NEAR WHERE HER BODY WAS FOUND. THE BODY OF 70-YEAR-OLD BERDIE MORGAN HAS BEEN TURNED OVER TO THE CORONER FOR AN AUTOPSY.
A BREAUX BRIDGE PRIEST, ACCUSED OF POSSESSING MORE THAN 500 IMAGES OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY LAST SUMMER, IS EXPECTED TO ENTER A GUILTY PLEA TODAY IN COURT. THE REVEREND FELIX DAVID BROUSSARD HAD BEEN SERVING AS PASTOR AT ST. BERNARD ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND AS CHANCELLOR OF THE PARISH SCHOOL FOR TWO YEARS. INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED HE HAD BEEN SEEKING PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES OF CHILDREN ON HIS COMPUTER FOR MOST OF THAT TIME. BLUE ROLFES, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR WITH THE DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE, SAYS AFTER THE STATE CONCLUDES ITS CASE, THE DIOCESE MAY CONVENE ITS OWN TRIBUNAL TO DETERMINE BROUSSARD’S STATUS WITH THE CHURCH.
Lawmakers are moving forward with a bill to make Louisiana the 43rd state in the nation to regulate ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft at the state level.
Without objection Monday, a House committee advanced the measure, which would see the state and local municipalities share 1 percent of each fare. The bill next will be considered on the House floor. Putting aside a tense business rivalry, representatives from Uber and Lyft were united in arguing their apps could start serving residents in some of Louisiana’s smaller cities if the companies no longer had to negotiate agreements with each local government.
