6-24-22
THE U-S SUPREME COURT, BY A 6-TO-THREE VOTE, HAS OVERTURNED THE ROE V. WADE DECISION FROM NINETEEN-SEVENTY-THREE. THE JUSTICES DETERMINED THAT THE PREVIOUS COURT HAD ERRONIOUSLY RULED THAT THE RIGHT TO AN ABORTION EXISTED IN THE U-S CONSTITUTION. WITH THE RULING, IT WILL BE UP TO EACH STATE TO DECIDE THE LIMITS ON ABORTION. LOUISIANA IS ONE OF THIRTEEN STATES THAT HAS A TRIGGER LAW THAT GOES INTO EFFECT WHEN ROE V WADE IS OVERTURNED. THE LAW BANS ABORTION IN THE STATE AND THE THREE REMAINING ABORTION CLINICS IN THE STATE WILL HAVE TO CLOSE DOWN.
A THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD MAN FROM EUNICE IS IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER BEING SHOT THREE TIMES BY A PASSING BICYCLIST WHILE WALKING ON PARK AVENUE YESTERDAY MORNING. POLICE SAY THE SHOOTING APPEARS TO BE A RANDOM OPPORTUNITY OF CRIME BY THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD DUSTY “SMILEY” GOTHREAUX, WHO HAS A RECENT HISTORY OF THREATENING TO HARM HIMSELF AND OTHERS. POLICE SAY THE GUN USED IN THE CRIME WAS STOLEN FROM A RELATIVE OF GOTHREAUX’S. POLICE FOUND GOTHREAUX YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT AROUND FOUR AND ARRESTED HIM.
A MAN WHO BROKE INTO A STORE IN LAFAYETTE YESTERDAY MORNING AND THREATENED THE ONLY EMPLOYEE THERE AT THE TIME WAS TAKEN TO UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER BECAUSE OF THE STATE OF HIS MENTAL HEALTH. THE SUSPECT FORCED HIS WAY INTO THE STORE AND TOLD THE EMPLOYEE HE HAD A GLOCK AND MADE SEXUAL THREATS. THE EMPLOYEE CALLED POLICE AND THE STORE MANAGER ALL WHILE THE SUSPECT CONTINUED TO THREATEN HIM. SERGEANT ROBIN GREEN WITH LAFAYETTE POLICE SAYS THE MAN WAS GIVEN A PHYSICIAN EMERGENCY CERTIFICATE, WHICH MEANS HE HAS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES SEVERE ENOUGH TO BE COMMITTED FOR CARE.
U-S SENATOR BILL CASSIDY OF LOUISIANA WAS ONE OF FIFTEEN REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO JOIN EVERY DEMOCRAT IN THE SENATE IN PASSING THE MOST EXPANSIVE GUN CONTROL BILL IN DECADES. THE BILL, PASSED 65-TO-33, PROVIDES GRANTS TO STATES THAT IMPLEMENT RED FLAG LAWS. IT ALSO WOULD PREVENT PEOPLE CONVICTED OF DOMESTIC ABUSE, BUT WHO ARE NOT MARRIED TO THEIR PARTNER, FROM OWNING A GUN. THE BILL NOW MOVES TO THE U-S HOUSE.
POLICE IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH ARRESTED FIFTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL SHANE KRATZER ON TWO ACTIVE WARRANTS. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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A CROWLEY MAN HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER FOR SHOOTING TO DEATH IS WIFE IN TWENTY-EIGHTEEN. DISTRICT ATTORNEY DON LANDRY SAYS FORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD DEMETRIC CORNELL SAVOY FACES LIFE IN PRISON, PROBATION OR SUSPENSION OF SENTENCE. THE VICTIM, THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD HEATHER MOUTON, WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN FRONT OF HER THREE-YEAR-OLD SON AND HER DAUGHTER FROM ANOTHER RELATIONSHIP. MOUTON HAD OBTAINED A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST SAVOY WHICH LED TO THE PASSAGE OF HEATHER’S LAW IN TWENTY-NINETEEN, WHICH REQUIRES LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO REVIEW RESTRAINING ORDERS FOR POTENTIAL CRIMES.
LAFAYETTE UTILITY SYSTEM AND THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT REMINDS CUSTOMERS THAT THE ANNUAL WATER CONSERVATION ORDINANCE IS IN EFFECT UNTIL SEPTEMBER THIRTIETH. UNDER THE ORDINANCE, RESIDENTS WITH EVEN NUMBERED ADDRESSES CAN WATER BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND TWO P-M ON WEDNESDAYS, FRIDAYS AND SUNDAYS WHILE THOSE WITH ODD NUMBERED ADDRESSES CAN WATER ON TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND SATURDAYS. FINES FOR VIOLATING THE ORDINANCE BEGINS WITH A FINE OF FIFTY DOLLARS FOR A SECOND OFFENSE ALL THE WAY UP TO FIVE HUNDRED FOR A FIFTH OFFENSE. THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS TO THE ORDINANCE SUCH AS THE ALLOWANCE OF HAND WATERING AND SOAKER HOSES.
DRIVERS ARE AT A HIGHER RISK OF BEING IN A CRASH DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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EVANGELINE PARISH IS SEEING AN UPTICK IN CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFTS. FRANCES WASHINGTON TELLS KLFY TV SHE REALIZED THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER ON HER R-V WAS STOLEN WHEN SHE WAS GETTING IT READY FOR A WEEKEND TRIP AND IT COST HER THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO REPLACE IT. SHERIFF CHARLES GUILLORY SAYS THERE WAS A RASH OF THEFTS SEVERAL WEEKS AGO THAT HIS DEPARTMENT WORKED TO BRING UNDER CONTROL. HE SAYS IT APPEARS TO BE STARTING AGAIN WITH FIVE CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFTS IN THE PAST TEN DAYS.
