6-22-20
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED SUNDAY AFTERNOON. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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A WESTLAKE MAN DIED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH ON L-A-TWENTY-SEVEN SATURDAY EVENING. TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD RYAN DANIEL JUNEAU WAS TRAVELING NORTH, ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE TROOP D, WHEN, FOR REASONS UNKNOWN, HE DRIFTED INTO THE OPPOSING LANE OF TRAFFIC THEN WENT BACK OFF THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD, STRIKING AN EMBANKMENT. THAT CAUSED THE S-U-V TO ROLL, AND JUNEAU, WHO WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT, WAS EJECTED AND DIED AT THE SCENE. IT IS NOT KNOWN IF JUNEAU WAS IMPAIRED. THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
A JENNINGS MAN WAS KILLED WHILE DRIVING A TRACTOR ON HIGHWAY NINETY EAST OF MERMENTAU YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. AT AROUND FOUR, FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD FRANK ZAUNBRECHER DROVE THE TRACTOR OFF THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON, HITTING A CULVERT, AND THEN WENT BACK ACROSS THE ROADWAY INTO THE OTHER DITCH. ZAUNBRECHER FELL FROM THE CAB OF THE TRACTOR AT SOME POINT AND DIED AT THE SCENE. THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION. THIS IS THE TWENTY-FOURTH FATAL CRASH IN THE TROOP I AREA RESULTING IN TWENTY-SEVEN DEATHS.
THERE WAS ONLY ONE DEATH STATEWIDE FROM COVID-NINETEEN IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THE TOTAL IS TWO THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED NINETY-THREE. THERE WERE FIFTEEN MORE COVID-NINETEEN PATIENTS THAT ARE HOSPITALIZED BUT FOUR FEWER PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CORONAVIRUS CASES IN THE STATE ROSE BY THREE HUNDRED NINETY-THREE.
ACADIANA HAD NO NEW DEATHS. THE TOTAL REMAINS AT TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE. THERE WERE SIXTY-TWO MORE CORONAVIRUS CASES, INCLUDING THIRTY-TWO IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. THE TOTAL IS FOUR THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ALSO SAW NO NEW DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN. THE TOTAL FOR THE REGION STANDS AT SEVENTY-SEVEN. TWENTY-THREE MORE CORONAVIRUS CASES WERE ADDED, INCLUDING TWELVE IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THE TOTAL HAS SURPASSED FIFTEEN HUNDRED.
AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD, WHO WAS SHOT LAST SUNDAY, JUNE FOURTEENTH, DIED FROM HIS INJURIES YESTERDAY. TRE’JON NORMAN AND HIS THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BROTHER, DEMARCUS DOMOND BROWN JUNIOR WERE VICTIMS OF A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN THE FIVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF JOHNSTON STREET IN NEW IBERIA. BROWN WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE, WHILE NORMAN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION, EVENTUALLY SUCCUMBING TO HIS INJURIES. SO FAR, NEW IBERIA POLICE HAVE MADE NO ARRESTS.
Louisiana Republicans can keep the districts they want for their governing body. Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed into law two measures that keep the Republican Party from having to follow a 1980s-era law that would have had it dramatically rework its State Central Committee districts. The Republican and Democratic central committees manage party activities, select state party leadership and determine delegates to the national party conventions, among other things. Republicans didn’t want to have to comply with a 33-year-old law written by Democrats that would newly have applied to the GOP central committee districts because Republicans topped the 30% voter registration benchmark in Louisiana.
EARLY VOTING IN THE LOUISIANA PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY BEGAN THIS PAST SATURDAY. IT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL JULY FOURTH, EXCEPT FOR THIS SUNDAY WHEN REGISTRAR OF VOTERS OFFICES ARE CLOSED.
