6-9-20
THERE ARE THIRTEEN ADDITIONAL DEATHS FROM COVID NINETEEN BRINGING THE TOTAL FOR LOUISIANA TO TWO THOUSAND, EIGHT-HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR. THE TOTAL NUMER OF CORONAVIRUS CASES IN THE STATE INCREASED BY FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY-TWO, PUSHING THE TOTAL TO FORTY-THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED TWELVE. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED DECREASED BY FOURTEEN WHILE THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY FOUR.
ACADIANA ADDED ONE DEATH FROM COVID-NINETEEN TO BRING THE TOTAL TO TWO HUNDRED SIXTEEN. THAT DEATH WAS IN ST. MARTIN PARISH. THERE ARE TWENTY-EIGHT MORE CASES IN THE REGION, INCLUDING ELEVEN IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES IN ACADIANA IS TWO THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD THIRTY-TWO MORE CASES OF CORONAVIRUS, FOR A TOTAL OF ONE THOUSAND SEVENTY, INCLUDING NINETEEN IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THERE WERE NO DEATHS IN THE REGION FROM COVID-NINETEEN FOR THE FOURTH DAY IN A ROW. THE TOTAL IS SEVENTY-TWO.
MORE THAN HALF OF THE RESIDENTS AT THE COURTYARD MANOR NURSING HOME ON SIDNEY MARTIN ROAD NEAR CARENCRO HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS. THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAYS THIRTY-SEVEN RESIDENTS HAVE THE CORONAVIRUS AND THREE HAVE DIED FROM COVID-NINETEEN. STAFF AT THE NURSING HOME HAVE ALSO BEEN AFFECTED. NINE EMPLOYEES AT COURTYARD MANOR HAVE TESTED POSITIVE, WITH TWO HAVING RECOVERED.
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS CONTINUING TO OFFER MOBILE TESTING SITES FOR COVID-NINETEEN IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH. TRUCKS AND EQUIPMENT OPERATED BY THE LOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD WILL BRING TESTING KITS TO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. THEY WILL BE AT THE LAKE ARTHUR COMMUNITY CENTER TOMORROW AND THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH FAIRGROUNDS IN JENNINGS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THEY WILL BE OPEN EACH MORNING FROM EIGHT TO ELEVEN.
THE STATE POLICE HAVE COMPLETED AN INVESTIGATION INTO AN OPELOUSAS POLICE OFFICER AND TURNED THEIR FINDINGS OVER TO THE ST. LANDRY PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JONAH COLEMAN CLAIMS HE WAS BEATEN LAST OCTOBER BY AN OFFICER WHILE IN A ROOM AT OPELOUSAS GENERAL HOSPITAL. HIS ATTORNEY, DARYL KEVIN WASHINGTON, SAYS THAT, AT ONE POINT, THE OFFICER’S ARM WAS AROUND THE NECK OF COLEMAN, AND THEY ARE DEMANDING THAT THE OFFICER BE FIRED AND CRIMINALLY CHARGED. POLICE CHIEF MARTIN MCLENDON SAYS THE OFFICER, WHO HAS NOT BEEN NAMED, IS ON PAID ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.
MONTHS OF UNCOLLECTED RENT AND MORTGAGES WILL BE DUE IN ONE WEEK. SYLVIA MASTERS EXPLAINS.
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THE IBERIA PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE HAS DECIDED NOT TO PROSECUTE ROY VERRET ON CAPITAL MURDER CHARGES FOR THE DEATH OF SEVENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD HOWARD POCHE OF JEANERETTE IN DECEMBER OF TWENTY-SIXTEEN. VERRET, WHO HAS BEEN IN JAIL FOR THREE YEARS, WAS RELEASED YESTERDAY. THE DECISION NOT TO PROSECUTE WAS BECAUSE OF A MIXUP AT THE ACADIANA CRIME LAB, WHICH FOUND POCHE’S BLOOD ON VERRET’S WASHING MACHINE, BUT IT WAS LATER DETERMINED THE WASHING MACHINE SAMPLE MAY HAVE BEEN SWITCHED WITH A SAMPLE FROM A KNIFE AT THE SCENE. DISTRICT ATTORNEY BO DUHE’S OFFICE SAYS THAT VERRET COULD STILL BE CHARGED IF NEW EVIDENCE EMERGES.
