5-29-23
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A FATAL CRASH INVOLVING TWO VEHICLES. IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT IN THE FOURTEEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF E. BROUSSARD ROAD. ONE PERSON IS DEAD AND ANOTHER PERSON WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL WITH NON-LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES. NO OTHER DETAILS HAVE BEEN RELEASED.
NEW IBERIA POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A MAN WHO COMMITTED A BANK ROBBERY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THE MAN WAS WEARING A SURGICAL MASK WHEN HE APPROACHED A TELLER AT THE CAPITAL ONE BANK ON EAST ADMIRAL DOYLE AND HANDED OVER A NOTE DEMANDING MONEY. HE LEFT THE BANK WITH AN UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT OF MONEY AND RAN AWAY. POLICE MANAGED TO GET IMAGES OF THE MAN BEFORE THE ROBBERY WITHOUT A MASK FROM A CAMERA AT A NEARBY BUSINESS, AND THEY’VE POSTED THE IMAGES ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE.
A TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MAN, WHO WAS SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE TORSO IN JENNINGS SATURDAY NIGHT, IS IN STABLE CONDITION. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AT THE DOWN-HOME REUNION EVENT BEING HELD AT MARCUS CAIN PARK. THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO THE JENNINGS HOSPITAL AND LATER FLOWN TO A LAFAYETTE TRAUMA CENTER. INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING FOR SUSPECTS AND HAVE TALKED TO WITNESSES.
A BILL THAT WOULD BAN MACHINE GUN CONVERSION DEVICES, ALSO KNOWN AS GLOCK SWITCHES, HEADS TO THE FLOOR OF THE STATE SENATE TODAY. THE BILL BY REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE DEWITH CARRIER OF OAKDALE WOULD MAKE IT UNLAWFUL TO MANUFACTURE, TRANSFER OR POSSESS ANY GUN THAT CAN AUTOMATICALLY FIRE MORE THAN ONE ROUND AT A TIME. THE HOUSE PASSED THE BILL ON MAY EIGHTEENTH ON A ONE HUNDRED-TO-ONE VOTE. THE USE OF THESE DEVISES HAS RISEN DRAMATICALLY AND ARE OFTEN USED IN DRUG AND GANG-RELATED CRIMES.
THERE ARE SEVERAL MEMORIAL DAY EVENTS TODAY IN ACADIANA. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS A BREAKDOWN ON SOME OF THE EVENTS BEGINNING IN LAFAYETTE.
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BROUSSARD POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE INTERSECTION OF EAST MAIN STREET AND SAINT DEPORRES (duh POR uhs). SHOTS WERE FIRED FROM A VEHICLE BUT NO ONE WAS INJURED. DETECTIVES BELIEVE THE SHOOTING STEMMED FROM A PREVIOUS ALTERCATION. TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD JUSTISE HARRISON WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH ASSAULT BY DRIVE-BY SHOOTING.
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A MAN SUSPECTED OF A SHOOTING IN OPELOUSAS MAY THIRD HAS BEEN ARRESTED. WITNESSES TOLD POLICE UP TO TWENTY SHOTS WERE FIRED AT A HOME ON GLOSTON STREET WITH SIX PEOPLE IN IT, THOUGH NO ONE WAS INJURED. TWENTY-YEAR-OLD JAQUARIOUS GUILLORY WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE SUSPECTED SHOOTER BUT MANAGED TO ELUDE POLICE UNTIL THURSDAY NIGHT. POLICE CAME ACROSS GUILLORY WHILE THEY WERE RESPONDING TO REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED IN THE AREA OF LEO AND FOSTER STREETS, AND POLICE SUSPECT GUILLORY MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THAT SHOOTING AS WELL.
