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ABBEVILLE POLICE HAVE RELEASED MORE DETAILS ABOUT A SUSPECT WHO ALLEGEDLY FIRED SHOTS AT POLICE OFFICERS AND WAS WOUNDED BY RETURN FIRE. LT. JONATHAN TOUCHET SAYS THE SUSPECT, RYAN HARGRAVE, WAS NOT SERIOUSLY INJURED BECAUSE HE WAS WEARING A BALLISTIC VEST. HE APPARENTLY POINTED A GUN AT ANOTHER DRIVER ON PEACE STREET IN ABBEVILLE DURING A ROAD RAGE INCIDENT AND HE ATTEMPTED TO FLEE FROM POLICE EVENTUALLY REACHING NEW IBERIA. STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE INCIDENT SINCE IT INVOLVED SHOTS BY A POLICE OFFICER.
LAFAYETTE POLICE WILL CONSIDER BEEFING UP PATROLS IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE AFTER HOURS. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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A SULPHUR WOMAN SUSPECTED OF A SHOOTING IN IOWA WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY IN LAFAYETTE. KAYLA VINCENT WITH THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS A TEN-YEAR-OLD AND TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD WERE SHOT YESTERDAY MORNING AT AROUND THREE-THIRTY AT A HOME ON EUGINE LANE IN IOWA. RESIDENTS AT THE HOME SAID TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD KALEY N. MURRAY WAS THE SHOOTER. DETECTIVES ALSO HAVE VIDEO SURVEILLANCE THAT SHOWS MURRAY KICKING THE DOOR AND FIRING SEVERAL SHOTS AT THE HOME BEFORE LEAVING.
The Louisiana House’s tax break debate is highlighting the chamber’s deepening partisan divisions in the state’s coronavirus response effort. Republicans say the package of multimillion-dollar tax breaks they are pushing will help companies struggling with the coronavirus outbreak. Democrats say the business lobby is taking advantage of the pandemic to unravel curbs put on ballooning incentive programs. That disagreement surfaced in Tuesday’s debate that passed three business tax breaks to the Senate for consideration.
THERE ARE NINE HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES IN LOUISIANA TODAY. HOWEVER, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAYS THIS INCLUDES A BACKLOG OF ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE CASES FROM EARLY APRIL. THERE ARE TWENTY MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN, BRINGING THE TOTAL TO TWO THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED FIFTY. AFTER THREE DAYS OF AN INCREASE IN PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID NINETEEN, THE NUMBER WENT DOWN TODAY BY NINE. BUT THERE ARE SIX MORE PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS.
ACADIANA HAD TWO HUNDRED THREE MORE CASES OF CORONAVIRUS, INCLUDING SIXTY IN ST. MARTIN PARISH AND FIFTY-NINE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. THE TOTAL IS THREE THOUSAND, EIGHT-HUNDRED TWENTY-FOUR. THERE ARE TWO ADDITIONAL DEATHS IN THE REGION, BOTH FROM ST. MARY PARISH. THE TOTAL IS NOW TWO HUNDRED THIRTY.
AFTER FIVE DAYS WITH NO COVID NINETEEN DEATHS, SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA REPORTED ONE ADDITIONAL DEATH, WHICH WAS IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THEY NOW HAVE A TOTAL OF FIFTY-ONE. THE TOTAL FOR THE REGION IS SEVENTY-FIVE. THERE ARE SIXTY-SEVEN MORE CORONAVIRUS CASES, FIFTY-TWO OF THEM FROM CALCASIEU PARISH. THE TOTAL IS ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY.
THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS SEARCHING FOR A MAN SUSPECTED OF THE THEFT OF INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT VALUED AT OVER FORTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS. THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD BRANDON JOSEPH BROUSSARD’S LAST KNOWN ADDRESS WAS IN KAPLAN. HE IS WHITE, FIVE-ELEVEN, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE POUNDS, WITH BLACK HAIR AND HAZEL EYES. ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHERE BROUSSARD CAN BE FOUND IS ASKED TO CALL ACADIA PARISH CRIME STOPPERS AT SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS.
