5-2-22
AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING AFTER TWELVE PEOPLE WERE SHOT IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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A BREAUX BRIDGE MAN REPORTED MISSING HAS BEEN FOUND DEAD. SEVENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD GREGG SKELLY WAS REPORTED MISSING OVER THE WEEKEND AFTER HE HAD NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE FRIDAY. THE BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED HIS DEATH IN A SOCIAL MEDIA POST. THEY DID NOT GIVE THE CAUSE OF DEATH, ONLY SAYING THEY ARE INVESTIGATING.
THERE WAS A HIGH-SPEED PURSUIT BY POLICE IN LAKE CHARLES YESTERDAY THAT WENT BY THE PRIEN LAKE MALL. IT STARTED AT THE BUSY BEE GAS STATION ON LAKE STREET AND ENDED IN THE THREE THOUSAND BLOCK OF JUNE STREET. TWO SUSPECTS WERE ARRESTED. POLICE HAVE NOT RELEASED THE REASON FOR THE CHASE.
SAINT MARTINVILLE CITY COUNCILMAN JASON WILLIS OUSTED MAYOR MELINDA MITCHELL BY GETTING FIFTY-EIGHT PERCENT OF THE VOTE IN SATURDAY’S RUNOFF ELECTION. VOTERS IN ABBEVILLE SELECTED A NEW POLICE CHIEF AS MIKE HARDY GOT 51 PERCENT TO DEFEAT THE CURRENT POLICE CHIEF WILLIAM SPEARMAN. A PROPERTY TAX FOR DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE WAS RENEWED WITH SEVENTY-ONE PERCENT OF THE VOTE. THE TAX, WHICH GENERATES NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-THOUSAND DOLLARS ANNUALLY, PAYS FOR THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.
A PART OF DULLES DRIVE IN LAFAYETTE IS REOPENING. DULLES BETWEEN AMBASSADOR CAFFERY AND NORTH DOMINGUE ROAD IS OPEN TO DRIVERS. SIDEWALKS, NEW LIGHTING AND A ROUNDABOUT HAVE BEEN ADDED TO NORTH DOMINGUE. THAT SECTION HAS BEEN WIDENED BUT WILL BE STRIPED AS A TWO LANE ROAD UNTIL ALL OF THE PROJECT IS COMPLETED. DULLES BETWEEN NORTH DOMINGUE AND WESTGATE ROAD WILL REMAIN CLOSED FOR ONGOING CONSTRUCTION.
A SHOOTING SUSPECT IS IN RAYNE POLICE CUSTODY. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS THE DETAILS.
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THERE WERE FEWER DRIVING DEATHS IN THE YEAR TWENTY-TWENTY, AS WOULD BE EXPECTED WITH PEOPLE STAYING HOME MORE, BUT DESPITE THAT, THERE WAS A TWELVE PERCENT INCREASE IN FATALITIES ATTRIBUTED TO DISTRACTED DRIVING. THAT’S ACCORDING TO AN ANALYSIS CONDUCTED BY MONEYGEEK. THEY RELEASED A LIST OF THE STATES WITH THE MOST DISTRACTED DRIVER FATALITIES AND LOUISIANA WAS NEAR THE TOP OF THE LIST AT NUMBER TWO, RIGHT BEHIND NEW MEXICO. THE BEST PLACES FOR THE LEAST DISTRACTED DRIVER DEATHS WAS RHODE ISLAND FOLLOWED BY MISSISSIPPI.
The public is invited to pay tribute in May to a World War II soldier from St. Landry Parish whose remains were identified nearly 80 years after his death. Army Pvt. Hillary Soileau went missing during a mission to clear Guadalcanal of Japanese forces in January 1943, when he was 23-years-old. Soileau’s nephew, Greg Badeaux, told KATC-TV funeral services will be held May 21 at Sibille Funeral Home in Opelousas. He said the family decided to bring him home to St. Landry Parish where he’ll be buried at the same cemetery where his parents and other relatives are.
