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7-4-22

A FRANKLINTON MAN IS DEAD AFTER A CRASH IN VERMILLION PARISH.  SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.

 

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LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE SEEKING TIPS FROM THE PUBLIC TO SOLVE A HOMOCIDE CASE THAT HAPPENED ONE WEEK AGO ON HAMMOND STREET.  POLICE, RESPONDING TO REPORTS OF GUNSHOTS AT AROUND ONE A-M MONDAY MORNING, FOUND A WOMAN WITH SEVERAL GUNSHOT WOUNDS.  THEY TOOK HER TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE SHE LATER DIED.  ANYONE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHO HAS INFORMATION OR VIDEO THAT THEY CAN SHARE IS ASKED TO CALL TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.

 

A LAKE CHARLES COMMUNITY LEADER WAS FOUND DEAD SATURDAY AFTERNOON.  POLICE RESPONDING TO A NINE-ONE-ONE CALL FOUND THE BODY OF THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD CARY CHAVIS IN A LOCAL MOTEL ROOM, WHICH WAS SECURE WHEN HE WAS FOUND.  THE CORONER’S OFFICE HAS NOT RELEASED THE CAUSE OF DEATH.  CHAVIS HOSTED A LOCAL PODCAST AND WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN ORGANIZING SEVERAL RECENT POLITICAL DEBATES.

 

LOUISIANA IS SEEING AN UPTICK IN COVID-NINETEEN CASES.  ACCORDING TO THE MOST RECENT STATISTICS FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THERE ARE TWO-THOUSAND, TWO-HUNDRED-THIRTY-SEVEN NEW CASES.  ALSO SIX MORE DEATHS ARE ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-NINETEEN.  COMMUNITY LEVELS ARE CONSIDERED HIGH IN CALCASIEU, JEFF DAVIS, LAFAYETTE, VERMILLION AND IBERIA PARISHES.

 

L-S-U IS NO LONGER REQUIRING STUDENTS GET VACCINATED FOR COVID-NINETEEN.  THEY SENT NOTES TO STUDENTS ABOUT THE NEW POLICY FOR THE UPCOMING FALL SEMESTER.  OFFICIALS STILL ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO GET VACCINATED.  THE UNIVERSITY WILL STILL BE PROVIDING FREE COVID-NINETEEN VACCINES, BOOSTERS AND TESTS AT THE STUDENT HEALTH CENTER.

 

A NEW IBERIA MAN DIED SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN AN A-T-V CRASH.  NEW IBERIA POLICE SAY TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD COLE SEGURA WAS TRAVELING ON NORTH LANDRY DRIVE AT AROUND FOUR P-M WHEN HE WENT OFF THE ROAD AND STRUCK A UTILITY POLE.  SEGURA, WHO WAS NOT WEARING A HELMET AND WAS EJECTED, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE BY THE PARISH CORONER.  TOXICOLOGY SAMPLES WERE TAKEN FROM SEGURA’S BODY AND SUBMITTED FOR ANALYSIS.

 

A DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE PARKING LOT WILL BE CLOSED THIS WEEK.  THE LOT ON GARFIELD STREET, BETWEEN JEFFERSON AND POLK STREETS, WILL BE RESURFACED BEGINNING TOMORROW.  WEATHER PERMITTING, IT WILL BE COMPLETED BY SUNDAY AND REOPENED THE FOLLOWING MONDAY.

 

A CHURCH POINT MAN WAS KILLED IN A TWO VEHICLE CRASH FRIDAY MORNING IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH.  THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AT AROUND NINE A-M AT THE INTERSECTION OF L-A HIGHWAY SEVEN-FIFTY-FOUR AND JESSIE RICHARD ROAD.  ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, FORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD WILLIAM CURLEY OF OPELOUSAS FAILED TO YIELD AT A STOP SIGN AND WAS HIT A PICKUP TRUCK ON THE PASSENGER SIDE.  CURLEY SUFFERED MODERATE INJURIES, BUT THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP, SEVENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CLAUDE CHEVIS OF CHURCH POINT, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.