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7-26-21

A SUSPECT IS DEAD AND A SHERIFF’S DEPUTY IS INJURED AFTER A STANDOFF IN CROWLEY YESTERDAY.  CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.

 

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LAFAYETTE PARISH HAD THREE HOMOCIDES IN A TWENTY-FOUR HOUR PERIOD.  IT BEGAN LATE FRIDAY NIGHT WHEN FIFTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD KENNEDY MOUTON SENIOR WAS FATALLY STABBED ON SOUTH SAINT ANTOINE STREET.  JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT, EARLY SATURDAY MORNING, A MAN, WHOSE NAME HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED, WAS SHOT AND KILLED WHILE DRIVING IN THE TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF NORTHEAST EVANGELINE THRUWAY.  THE THIRD HOMOCIDE OCCURRED SATURDAY AFTERNOON, WHEN A MAN WAS FATALLY SHOT AT A WALGREENS ON GLORIA SWITCH ROAD IN CARENCRO.

 

LOUISIANA CONGRESSMAN CLAY HIGGINS ANNOUNCED ON FACEBOOK YESTERDAY THAT HE, HIS WIFE AND SON ALL HAVE COVID-NINETEEN.  HE SAYS THIS IS THE SECOND TIME FOR HE AND HIS WIFE.  THE REPUBLICAN SAYS THIS EPISODE IS FAR MORE CHALLENGING.  HOWEVER, HIGGINS SAYS THEY ARE ALL UNDER EXCELLENT CARE AND THE PROGNOSIS IS POSITIVE.

 

Gov. John Bel Edwards is encouraging everyone, whether vaccinated or not, to wear masks indoors if they can’t stay distanced from others. His guidance released Friday comes as Louisiana sees more 1,000 people hospitalized with COVID-19 across the state, but the Democratic governor stopped short of issuing a statewide face covering mandate or new restrictions on activities and businesses. Louisiana’s in its fourth spike of COVID-19, driven this time by the highly contagious delta variant. Edwards said Louisiana is leading the nation in new case growth.

 

A FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD YOUNGSVILLE MAN WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF A BODY IN IBERIA PARISH.  THE BODY OF A FIFTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD WHITE WOMAN WAS FOUND ALONG AVERY ISLAND ROAD SUNDAY AT AROUND TWO A-M.  POLICE HAVE NOT RELEASED THE WOMAN’S NAME.  THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE APPLIED FOR AN ARREST WARRANT FOR FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD KENT BROUSSARD, WHO IS BEING CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND FAILURE TO SEEK ASSISTANCE.  MORE CHARGES ARE PENDING FOLLOWING AN AUTOPSY BY THE IBERIA PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE.

 

THE FAMILY OF A MISSING LAFAYETTE MAN IS ASKING THE PUBLIC’S HELP IN FINDING HIM.  NICK RICKARD, WHO HAS BEEN MISSING FOR SEVERAL DAYS, SUFFERS FROM A PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER.  HE IS FIVE-SIX AND ABOUT ONE HUNDRED THIRTY POUNDS.  A PHOTO OF HIM CAN BE SEEN AT THE KATC-DOT-COM WEBSITE.  IF YOU SPOT HIM, YOU ARE ASKED TO CALL THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

 

A FRANKLIN MAN, WHO ADMITTED POURING LIQUID ON HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND AND HIS FIVE-YEAR-OLD NEPHEW BEFORE SETTING THEM ON FIRE, NOW FACES ADDITIONAL CHARGES AFTER THE WOMAN DIED YESTERDAY.  THE FIVE-YEAR-OLD, JOSHUA HAMILTON, DIED ON JULY THIRTEENTH AFTER NEIGHBORS PULLED HIS BADLY BURNED BODY FROM THE HOME.  THE FEMALE VICTIM, WHO HAD INITIALLY ESCAPED FROM THE HOME, HAD THIRD DEGREE BURNS OVER SIXTY PERCENT OF HER BODY.  THE SUSPECT, FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD DERWIN HAMILTON, WAS ARRESTED HOURS AFTER THE FIRE.