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5-27-21

CROWLEY POLICE HAVE A PERSON OF INTEREST IN CONNECTION WITH A DEADLY SHOOTING.  SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.

 

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House Speaker Clay Schexnayder has ousted his education committee chairman. Rep. Ray Garofalo repeatedly bucked the speaker’s wishes in a simmering Republican intraparty feud that began with a bill about how to teach racism in schools. Schexnayder announced his decision in a statement that came hours after Garofalo sought to chair the House Education Committee he’d been asked to temporarily abandon. This time, Schexnayder yanked Garofalo from the leadership job permanently.

 

A LAKE CHARLES MAN WAS ARRESTED THIS WEEK FOR STEALING FROM A LOCAL CHARITY.  INVESTIGATORS SAY AUSTIN TYLER RAMOS CREATED FALSE NAMES AND ADDRESSES ON HIS WORK LAPTOP AND THEN MADE FAKE REPORTS OF HOUSE FIRES.  A CALCASIEU PARISH NONPROFIT WOULD RELEASE FUNDS TO THE FAKE VICTIMS AND RAMOS WOULD ALLEGEDLY LOAD THE MONEY ONTO GIFT CARDS.  THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE THEFT WAS JUST OVER SIXTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS GOING BACK TO TWENTY-NINETEEN.

 

THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF A LAFAYETTE TEENAGER, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON MAY FIFTEENTH, HELD A CELEBRATION OF HER LIFE LAST NIGHT AT MOUTON PARK AS WELL AS A BALLOON RELEASE.  EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JENNIFER HURST HAD GRADUATED FROM NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL LAST YEAR AND HER BAND DIRECTOR AND MEMBERS OF THE BAND ATTENDED THE CELEBRATION.  JENNIFER’S BOYFRIEND, LUCAS WILLIAMS, WHO IS NINETEEN-YEARS-OLD, IS THE SUSPECTED SHOOTER AND TURNED HIMSELF OVER TO POLICE.  HE FACES A CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND IS CURRENTLY IN THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON A TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.

 

A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL WAS HELD LAST NIGHT ON EAST SIMCOE STREET IN LAFAYETTE FOR FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD ROBERT HEBERT, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED MAY NINETEENTH ON THAT SAME STREET.  HEBERT’S MOTHER, EUNICE SHELVIN, CALLED FOR JUSTICE AND ASKED THE MAN WHO SHOT HER SON TO TURN HIMSELF IN.  HEBERT LEFT BEHIND FIVE CHILDREN.  EUNICE ALSO SAYS SHE WANTED TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE, SAYING THE COMMUNITY NEEDS TO UNITE TO COMBAT THE PROBLEM.

 

AT LEAST SEVEN MEN ARE RECOVERING FROM INJURIES THEY RECEIVED IN A GAS WELL EXPLOSION IN ST. MARY PARISH.  ONE OF THE MEN, SIXTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD DICKY ROBICHAUX, WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED AND TRANSFERRED TO THE BURN UNIT AT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER IN NEW ORLEANS FOR TREATMENT OF BURNS TO THE HANDS, NECK AND FACE.  BRIDGET ROBICHAUX SAYS HER FATHER HAS BEEN A WELL CONSULTANT AND SUPERIOR WELL TECHNICIAN FOR FORTY YEARS AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME HE’S BEEN HOSPITALIZED.  HIS FIRST SURGERY IS SCHEDULED TODAY AND BRIDGET SAYS HE’S A CANDIDATE FOR A NEW BURN TREATMENT WHICH MAY ALLOW FOR FEWER SKIN GRAFTS FOR HIS BODY TO HEAL.

 

LOUISIANA HAD FOURTEEN MORE COVID-NINETEEN CONFIRMED DEATHS, IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  THE NUMBER OF NEW CASES INCREASED BY TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE.  COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS CONTINUE DOWNWARD WITH TWO FEWER TODAY.  BUT THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS EDGED UP BY TWO.

 

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS HAD NO NEW DEATHS FOR SIX STRAIGHT DAYS.  ACADIANA REPORTED THREE MORE DEATHS YESTERDAY, IN IBERIA, LAFAYETTE AND VERMILLION PARISHES.  THERE ARE FORTY-TWO NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES IN ACADIANA.  MORE THAN HALF CAME FROM ACADIA PARISH, WITH TWENTY-FOUR.  THIRTEEN NEW CASES WERE REPORTED IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, INCLUDING EIGHT IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH.