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A HEAVILY TRAVELED BRIDGE IN ABBEVILLE REMAINS CLOSED THIS MORNING AFTER MECHANICAL ISSUES FORCED ITS CLOSURE YESTERDAY. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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DUSON POLICE HAVE RELEASED BODY CAM FOOTAGE SHOWING AN ATTEMPTED MURDER SUSPECT JUMPING IN A POND TO TRY TO ESCAPE CAPTURE. TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD DAYLON RICHARD OF LAFAYETTE THEN SWAM BACK BUT STILL REFUSED TO COME OUT OF THE WATER. POLICE CHIEF KIP JUDICE CREDITED CRIME CAMERAS SET UP AROUND TOWN WITH HELPING THEM TO LOCATE RICHARD, WHO WAS FOUND AT A GAS STATION INITIALLY. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL, WHERE HE IS FACING CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND OTHER CHARGES AS WELL AS FOR MISSING A COURT APPEARANCE.
Republican lawmakers are reacting with fury to the felony conviction of former President Donald Trump. A jury on Thursday in New York convicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election. Republicans rushed to Trump’s defense, questioning the legitimacy of the trial and how it was conducted. House Speaker Mike Johnson from Louisiana said it was a “shameful day.”
TRIAL BEGAN IN LAKE CHARLES YESTERDAY FOR ERRON FONTENOT, WHO IS CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. HE IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AND KILLING THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD JAMES BARRILLEAUX WHILE HE WAS SITTING ON A PORCH IN SULPHUR, SMOKING A CIGARETTE. THE PROSECUTOR SAYS FONTENTOT KILLED BARRILLEAUX BECAUSE HE BELIEVED BARRILLEAUX STOLE HIS TOOLS AND KEYS. THE PROSECUTION WILL PRESENT ITS CASE AS THE TRIAL RESUMES TODAY.
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE MADE A SECOND ARREST IN THE MURDER OF SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD STANNFORD MOUTON AT HIS HOME ON MACKLYN STREET. ON MAY TWENTY-FIRST, A BULLET FROM OUTSIDE WENT THROUGH THE WALLS OF THE HOME AND STRUCK MOUTON WHILE HE WAS IN BED. ON WEDNESDAY, POLICE ARRESTED SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD TR’MARION THOMAS OF LAFAYETTE ON THREE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND PRINCIPAL TO SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. THE FIRST SUSPECT WAS TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD LEONCE BOUTTE THE FOURTH OF LAFAYETTE, WHO IS CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND THREE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER.
THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING AN APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE. IT HAPPENED IN THE SIX THOUSAND BLOCK OF COTEAU ROAD WHERE DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF A SHOOTING. THEY FOUND FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD AMY GUILLORY DEAD IN THE HOME FROM MULTIPLE GUNSHOT WOUNDS. HER HUSBAND, FIFTY-YEAR-OLD HERBERT GUILLORY, WAS FOUND DEAD IN A NEARBY FIELD FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND THAT DEPUTIES BELIEVE WAS SELF-INFLICTED.
THE ACADIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD HAS NAMED A NEW SUPERINTENDENT. THE BOARD VOTED UNANIMOUSLY FOR CAROL DAILEY-TALL TO TAKE OVER THE POSITION PERMANENTLY. SHE HAS SERVED AS INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT SINCE APRIL AFTER THE BOARD DECLINED TO RENEW THE CONTRACT OF FORMER SUPERINTENDENT SCOTT RICHARD. DAILEY-TALL HAS BEEN IN THE ACADIA PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM FOR THIRTY-ONE YEARS.
Louisiana could soon become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. The legislation, which heads to the desk of Gov. Jeff Landry, mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments be required in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities. Similar bills have been proposed in other statehouses — including Texas, Oklahoma and Utah. If signed into law in Louisiana, legal challenges are expected to follow.
