7-28-22
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A MAN WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND FLOATING IN THE VERMILLION RIVER TUESDAY NIGHT. SEVENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAVID MAYEAUX OF LAFAYETTE HAS BEEN RULED TO HAVE DROWNED ACCIDENTALLY. AUTHORITIES FOUND MAYEAUX’S LAWN MOWER AND SHOES NEAR THE EDGE OF THE BANK OF THE VERMILLION RIVER, BEHIND HIS HOME. POLICE SAY HE FELL INTO THE WATER.
TWO ABBEVILLE MEN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ON FIRST DEGREE MURDER CHARGES. TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD DONALD BRIGGS THE THIRD AND NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD STEFAN BRIGGS ARE ACCUSED IN THE SHOOTING OF EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JAZAYLON LEVY AT THE STONEBRIDGE APARTMENT COMPLEX IN ABBEVILLE ON JULY FOURTEENTH. POLICE WERE CALLED TO THE SCENE AT NINE-THIRTY THAT NIGHT AND FOUND LEVY SUFFERING FROM A SINGLE GUNSHOT WOUND. HE DIED AT THE HOSPITAL. CHIEF MIKE HARDY THANKED HIS OFFICERS FOR AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AND THANKED THE COMMUNITY FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE.
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER FOSTER CAMPBELL SUGGESTED DEREGULATING ELECTRICITY COMPANIES TO ALLOW FOR COMPETITION AT A MEETING HELD IN SHREVEPORT. CAMPBELL SAYS IT MIGHT TAKE DEREGULATING TO SEE HOW CHEAP YOU CAN BUY ELECRICITY ON THE MARKET AND IT’S THEIR JOB TO TAKE A REAL HARD LOOK AT IT. AN ENTERGY SPOKESPERSON CITED TEXAS, WHICH HAS DERGEGULATION, SAYING NOT ALL CUSTOMERS CAN GET THE LOWER RATE. CAMPBELL TOLD ENTERGY LEADERS HE BELIEVES THEY ARE MORE ABOUT MAKING MONEY FOR STOCKHOLDERS THAN THE DILEMMA LOUISIANA FACES WITH SKYROCKETING ELECTRICTY BILLS.
THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS ASKING FOR THE PUBLIC’S HELP TO SOLVE A COLD CASE HOMOCIDE. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS THE DETAILS.
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THE LAFAYETTE CITY AND PARISH COUNCILS HAVE BEEN IN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY GOING THROUGH REHAB FOR ALCOHOL ADDICTION AND P-T-S-D. ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE FOR GUILLORY TO REMAIN IN CONTACT WITH THE CITY PARISH ATTORNEY AND THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER, BUT THE HOME RULE CHARTER INDICATES THE COUNCIL CHAIRS CHOOSE A COUNCIL MEMBER TO TAKE OVER HIS DUTIES WHILE HE’S GONE. PARISH COUNCIL CHAIRPERSON A-B RUBIN SAYS THEY’VE HAD MEETINGS WITH THEIR LEGAL COUNSEL AND WILL LET THE PUBLIC KNOW WHAT DECISION THEY HAVE MADE. BUDGET HEARINGS ARE UNDERWAY BUT IT IS EXPECTED GUILLORY WILL BE BACK LONG BEFORE ANYTHING IS FINALIZED.
THE OFFICE OF MOTOR VEHICLES IN CROWLEY IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED. THAT’S BECAUSE OF COVID-NINETEEN SAFETY PRECAUTIONS, ACCORDING TO AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE DEPARTMENT. THEY ARE TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO REOPEN ON TUESDAY. ANYONE NEEDING IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE CAN GO ONLINE TO EXPRESS LANE-DOT-ORG.
FORMER HOUSING AUTHORITY APARTMENTS IN DUSON, THAT WERE VACATED AND ABANDONED SIX YEARS AGO, HAVE BECOME AN EYESORE. ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF JAMES HODGES SAYS THE TOWN DESERVES SOMETHING BETTER TO LOOK AT THAN DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS AND OVERGROWN GRASS. HE TELLS KLFY TV THAT EITHER THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OR THE TOWN OF DUSON NEEDS TO FIGURE SOMETHING OUT BEFORE IT CONTINUES TO DECAY AND ATTRACT MORE CRIME THAN IT ALREADY HAS. HODGES SAYS HE HOPES SOMETHING GETS DONE SOON.
A LIFEGUARD AT THE SAINT MARTINVILLE CITY POOL SAVED THE LIFE OF A DROWNING GIRL. LANDON KATELY SAYS HE NOTICED TWO SISTERS JUMP IN THE POOL BUT ONE BEGAN PANICKING AND GASPING FOR WATER. KATELY JUMPED IN AND PICKED HER UP. HE SAYS, SHE COUGHED UP WATER WHEN HE HIT HER IN THE BACK A FEW TIMES. KATELY SAYS HIS LIFEGUARD TRAINING PREPARED HIM TO ACT AND NOT PANIC IN THAT SITUATION.
