6-20-23
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A HOMOCIDE TODAY. DANIELLE DUNCAN HAS THE DETAILS.
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TWO SHOOTINGS YESTERDAY IN EUNICE MAY HAVE BEEN RELATED. TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DELRIDGE ISAIAH ROBINSON OF EUNICE DIED IN THE FIRST SHOOTING WHICH HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER ONE-FORTY MONDAY MORNING. THE PERSON WHO CALLED THE POLICE TO REPORT THAT HIS FRIEND WAS SHOT HAD BEEN PICKED UP AND LEFT THE AREA BY THE TIME POLICE ARRIVED. JUST AFTER THAT SHOOTING, EUNICE POLICE WERE CALLED TO ANOTHER SHOOTING COMPLAINT AND AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING TO DETERMINE IF THE TWO WERE RELATED.
A SULPHUR MAN WAS ARRESTED EARLIER THIS MONTH FOR A STRING OF BURGLARIES. DETECTIVES WITH THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD JAMES CAREY JUNIOR AS A SUSPECT WHEN HE WAS FOUND ON SURVEILLANCE VIDEO AT A SULPHUR GROCERY STORE USING CREDIT CARDS FROM A STOLEN WALLET. CAREY IS ALSO SUSPECTED OF STEALING AN S-U-V AND, LATER, A TRUCK FROM A LOCAL TOW COMPANY. WEBBER WAS PULLED OVER BY DEPUTIES IN THE STOLEN TRUCK AND HE ALLEGEDLY TOLD DETECTIVES HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THEFTS.
GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS HAS BEEN SIGNING MULTIPLE BILLS INTO LAW FROM THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION. ONE OF THE BILLS THE GOVERNOR SIGNED WILL PUT THE “IN GOD WE TRUST” MOTTO INTO SCHOOLS. THE NATIONAL MOTTO WILL BE REQUIRED TO BE DISPLAYED IN EVERY PUBLIC-SCHOOL CLASSROOM. IT GOES INTO EFFECT ON AUGUST FIRST.
AS MORE OF THE LAST-MINUTE CHANGES TO THE STATE BUDGET ARE REVEALED, SOME ARE REFLECTING ON THE STATE OF LOUISIANA’S FINANCES AND WHAT THE LEGISLATURE CHOSE TO MAKE A PRIORITY. DANIELLE DUNCAN HAS MORE.
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LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE OBTAINED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR FORTY-YEAR-OLD JUSTIN LEE WEBBER, WHO FACES A CHARGE OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. WHILE BEING ARRESTED IN HARRISON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI ON UNRELATED CHARGES, WEBBER ALLEGEDLY CONFESSED TO A HOMOCIDE AT A RESIDENCE ON LEONIE STREET IN LAFAYETTE. THE POLICE WENT TO CHECK AND FOUND THE VICTIM, SIXTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD RANDALL DUPLECHIN OF LAFAYETTE. WEBBER IS NOW AWAITING EXTRADITION BACK TO LAFAYETTE.
JEANERETTE POLICE CHIEF DUSTY VALLOT SAYS HIS DEPARTMENT HAS OBTAINED A WARRANT IN CONNECTION WITH A FRIDAY HOMOCIDE, AND THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF OBTAINING MORE WARRANTS. ONE PERSON WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON PEACH STREET FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND ANOTHER PERSON WAS AIRLIFTED TO A NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION. POLICE HAVE CONFIRMED THAT BOTH VICTIMS ARE MALE BUT HAVE NOT RELEASED THEIR IDENTITIES. VALLOT TELLS KATC TV THAT RANDOM GUNSHOTS DO HAPPEN AT TIMES IN JEANERETTE BUT NEVER ANY HOMOCIDES.
ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES HAVE MADE THIRTEEN RECENT NARCOTICS-RELATED ARRESTS. SHERIFF K-P GIBSON SAYS IN A FACEBOOK POST THAT THEY ARE SEIZING VARIOUS NARCOTICS, TAKING ILLEGAL FIREARMS OFF THE STREETS AND ARRESTING THOSE INVOLVED IN THE ILLEGAL NARCOTICS INDUSTRY. GIBSON EXPRESSED PRIDE IN HIS DEPUTIES. HE SAYS THEY ARE OUTNUMBERED BUT THEY HAVE NOT LOST THEIR FOCUS.
