6-21-23
TWO PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED IN WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH IN CONNECTION WITH A DOUBLE HOMOCIDE THAT HAPPENED MONDAY NIGHT ON SOUTH ORLEANS DRIVE IN LAFAYETTE. TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD ZYLIN SION OF LAFAYETTE IS CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER WHILE EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ALAYNA MOREAU OF CHURCH POINT FACES TWO COUNTS OF ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT. THE VICTIMS WERE TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD DENZEL SMITH AND TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CODIE LADAY, BOTH OF LAFAYETTE. THEY EACH SUFFERED MULTIPLE GUNSHOT WOUNDS.
THE MAYOR OF JEANERETTE SAYS IMPROVEMENTS TO THE CITY’S WATER PLANT AND TOWER ARE UNDERWAY. CAROL BOURGEOIS JUNIOR TELLS KATC TV THAT REFURBISHING THE PLANT WILL COST ABOUT TWO-POINT-TWO MILLION DOLLARS WHILE UPGRADES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE TO THE WATER TOWER WILL RUN AROUND EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND. HE SAYS MOST OF THE MONEY IS COMING FROM FEDERAL AND STATE GRANTS THOUGH THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT HAS TO MATCH UP TO TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT. BOURGEOIS SAYS RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT HIGHER QUALITY WATER IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE NEW YEAR, WHEN THE UPGRADES SHOULD BE COMPLETED.
AN ALLEGED DOMESTIC INCIDENT BETWEEN A LAKE CHARLES MAN AND HIS GIRLFRIEND LED TO A CAR CRASH. JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO A REPORTED DISPUTE AT MILE MARKER FORTY-EIGHT IN IOWA WHERE THEY HAD TO SEPARATE TWO PEOPLE. THE GIRLFRIEND SAYS HER BOYFRIEND, TWENTY-YEAR-OLD HUNTER LECROIX, GRABBED HER, LEAVING MARKS ON HER ARM, AND THEN HE SWERVED OFF THE ROAD, HITTING A RAILING. LECROIX WAS ARRESTED AND BOOKED INTO THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH JAIL ON CHARGES OF BATTERY OF A DATING PARTNER AND AGGRAVATED CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
Lawmakers in Louisiana’s GOP-controlled Senate say they regret their hasty passage of the state’s $45 billion budget. In particular, they are ruing their decision to cut $100 million from a proposed funding increase for the state Department of Health. The cut is likely to have major repercussions on certain services and could result in a significant loss of matching federal funding. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards recently said that he would do everything he could to either partly or completely restore the proposed funding.
AUTHORITIES HAVE RELEASED THE NAME OF THE WORKER AT BAKER HUGHES WHO DIED ON THE JOB EARLIER THIS MONTH. DANIELLE DUNCAN REPORTS.
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A BREAUX BRIDGE REALTOR SAYS SOMEONE TRIED TO SCAM HER BY SAYING THEY WERE WITH THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND WERE THREATENING HER ARREST FOR MISSING JURY DUTY. THE PERSON TOLD STACY FOLSE THAT SHE HAD TO PAY MONEY TO AVOID ARREST. STACY TELLS KLFY TV THAT SHE ALMOST BELIEVED THEM BECAUSE OF THE PERSONAL INFORMATION THEY HAD ON HER AND THE CAJUN ACCENT. SHE SAYS THE MAN GAVE HIMSELF AWAY WHEN HE COULDN’T PRONOUNCE BREAUX BRIDGE PROPERLY, CALLING IT BROX BRIDGE INSTEAD.
A POWER OUTAGE IS PLANNED FOR THE TOWN OF WELSH. SOME AREA RESIDENTS WILL BE WITHOUT POWER FROM MIDNIGHT TO FOUR A-M ON FRIDAY. A LIST OF THE AREAS AFFECTED CAN BE FOUND AT KATC-DOT-COM. TOWN OFFICIALS ARE URGING RESIDENTS TO INFORM THOSE WITH MEDICAL PROBLEMS ABOUT THE PLANNED OUTAGE.
CROWLEY POLICE MADE AN ARREST SUNDAY FOR THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A JUVENILE ON JANUARY TENTH. MARQUARIUS HARMON WAS SHOT NUMEROUS TIMES BY A HIGH-POWERED RIFLE ON MARCEL THOMAS AVENUE IN CROWLEY. KEN DWAYNE JACOB ROY FACES SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND ONE COUNT OF CRIMINAL STREET GANG ACTIVITY. DETECTIVES ARE STILL INVESTIGATING AND HAVE LEADS ON FOUR ADDITIONAL SUSPECTS.
