7-27-22
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THE BODY OF AN OLDER WHITE MAN WAS FOUND FLOATING TUESDAY NIGHT IN THE VERMILLION RIVER. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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A LIGHTNING STRIKE CAUSED DAMAGE AT THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL. SHERIFF K-P GIBSON SAYS THEY HOPE TO RESTORE POWER BY THE END OF THE WEEK UNLESS THE DAMAGE IS WORSE THAN EXPECTED. IN THE MEANTIME, ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OF THE JAIL POPULATION HAS BEEN SHIPPED OUT TO FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE STATE. HE SAYS THERE WERE NO INJURIES FROM THE LIGHTNING STRIKE, WHICH KNOCKED OUT A MAIN POWER BOARD NEAR THE ENTRANCE AND EXITS TO THE JAIL.
A LOUISIANA JUDGE, WHO BLOCKED THE ENFORCEMENT OF A STATE BAN ON ABORTIONS, HAS DENIED A MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULING WHILE AN APPEAL IS PURSUED. STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF LANDRY AND HEALTH SECRETARY COURTNEY PHILLIPS FILED THE REQUEST IN BATON ROUGE LAST WEEK. LANDRY SAID YESTERDAY IN A SOCIAL MEDIA POST THAT THEY TRUST THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL WILL APPLY THE LAW PROPERLY AND REVERSE JUDGE DONALD JOHNSON’S RULING. SINCE THE SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED ROE-V-WADE LAST MONTH, THE STATE ABORTION BAN HAS TAKEN EFFECT TWICE AND BEEN BLOCKED TWICE.
A MOSS BLUFF MOTHER HAS COME UP WITH A UNIQUE WAY TO TRY AND FIND A KIDNEY DONOR FOR HER SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD SON. MECHELLE MILLER GOT SOME PAINT PENS AND WROTE A MESSAGE ON THE WINDOWS OF HER VEHICLE, HOPING SOMEONE WILL BE ABLE TO DONATE. HER SON, ELIJAH, IS IN THE FINAL STAGE OF RENAL FAILURE, SPENDING DAYS AND MONTHS AT A TIME IN THE HOSPITAL. THE LOUISIANA ORGAN PROCUREMENT AGENCY, OR LOPA, SAYS KIDNEY DONATIONS ARE THE GREATEST NEED IN LOUISIANA AND THE COUNTRY WITH AN AVERAGE WAIT TIME OF THREE-AND-A-HALF YEARS.
THE WIFE OF LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY HAS ISSUED A STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR HER HUSBAND AFTER HE CHECKED HIMSELF INTO REHAB FOR ALCOHOL ADDICTION AND UNTREATED P-T-S-D. JAMIE GUILLORY SAYS HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE HAVE REACHED OUT TO HER AND THE FAMILY WITH WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT. SHE SAYS SHE’S NEVER BEEN PROUDER OF HER HUSBAND AND THEIR FAITH IS STRONG, KNOWING GOD IS IN CHARGE. JAMIE SAYS IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT SOME WILL USE THE SITUATION FOR THEIR POLITICAL ADVANTAGE.
THE FRANKLIN POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS POSTED THREE PHOTOS ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE OF SUSPECTS IN A SATURDAY NIGHT SHOOTING. IT HAPPENED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF SEVENTH STREET AND M-L-K BOULEVARD. THE SUSPECTS ARE BELIEVED TO BE FROM LAFOURCHE, ASSUMPTION AND TERREBONNE PARISHES. ANYONE WHO CAN PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THE SUSPECTS IS URGED TO CALL THE FRANKLIN POLICE DETECTIVE DIVISION.
LOUISIANA HAS MORE THAN SEVEN HUNDRED HOSPITALIZATIONS DUE TO COVID-NINETEEN. YESTERDAY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTED MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED NEW CASES IN A TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR PERIOD. OF THE NEW CASES, NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED ARE REINFECTIONS. DOCTOR HENRY KAUFMAN AT OUR LADY OF LOURDES TELLS KLFY TV NO ONE HAS BEEN ADMITTED TO THE I-C-U WHERE COVID IS THE PRIMARY DIAGNOSIS BUT THEY ARE SEEING THE NUMBER OF AVAILABLE BEDS DROP OFF.
A MAN WANTED BY SAINT LANDRY PARISH AUTHORITIES FOR OVER A YEAR WAS ARRESTED LAST WEEK AND BOOKED INTO THE PARISH JAIL. DEPUTIES ISSUED AN ALERT FOR TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD DYLAN MITCHELL CHIASSON IN MARCH OF LAST YEAR, WARNING THE PUBLIC THAT HE WAS CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. CHIASSON ALLEGEDLY GOT INTO A DISPUTE WITH ANOTHER MAN IN FEBRUARY LAST YEAR AND LATER DROVE UP TO THE MAN’S HOUSE, FIRING SHOTS AT HIM WHILE HIS CHILDREN RAN INTO THE HOUSE. CHIASSON HAS BEEN WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER, THREE COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A FIREARM AND ILLEGAL USE OF WEAPONS.
