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ON SATURDAY NIGHT A JURY FOUND SHAVIS TOBY GUILTY OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER FOR THE SHOOTING DEATH OF LAFAYETTE BOXER BRANDON BROUSSARD IN TWENTY-EIGHTEEN. AFTER THE READING OF THE VERDICT, SHAVIS DIRECTED A SLUR AT JUDGE ROYALE COLBERT AND ATTEMPTED TO SPIT ON HIM. HIS BROTHER, CARLOS TOBY, WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER BUT GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT SECOND DEGREE MURDER. PROSECUTORS SAID THE BROTHERS CONSPIRED TO KILL BROUSSARD TWO WEEKS AFTER A NIGHT CLUB FIGHT IN WHICH BROUSSARD HUMILIATED CARLOS TOBY.
SOME PEOPLE IN IOTA ARE STRUGGLING IN TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF A MURDER SUICIDE THAT HAPPENED LAST WEDNESDAY. THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE DETERMINED THAT TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD TRISTON HOPKINS SHOT AND KILLED HIS MOTHER, FORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD PAM SPENCER, WHILE SHE WAS DRIVING ON MCCAIN ROAD, THEN HE TURNED THE GUN ON HIMSELF. A CLOSE FAMILY FRIEND, BRIDGET DOUCET, TELLS THE ADVOCATE THAT LOVED ONES ARE BEGINNING TO WONDER IF HOPKINS HAD A DEEP MENTAL HEALTH STRUGGLE SINCE HIS FATHER DIED LAST FEBRUARY. DOUCET SAYS THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF SPENCER ARE RALLYING TOGETHER, ESPECIALLY AROUND HER TWO SURVIVING SONS.
Louisiana’s Special School District will be reorganized under a bill unanimously backed by lawmakers and signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards. The district includes the state-run schools for the deaf and visually impaired, among other educational services. The Advocate reports the measure by Baton Rouge Republican Rep. Scott McKnight sets up a 12-member board to oversee operations of the district. The governor will name 11 of 12 members of the new board, and the president of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will name the final member.
A MISSING KINDER MAN HAS BEEN FOUND AND IS SAFE. STATE POLICE ISSUED A SILVER ALERT AFTER NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD MORRIS WILLIAMS WALKED AWAY FROM HIS HOME LAST WEDNESDAY. A SILVER ALERT WAS ISSUED BECAUSE WILLIAMS HAD AN UNDERLYING MEDICAL ISSUE THAT COULD HAVE IMPAIRED HIS JUDGEMENT. THE SILVER ALERT WAS CANCELLED ON SATURDAY.
THE CARENCRO POLICE DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE IS EXPERIENCING AN OUTBREAK OF COVID-NINETEEN CASES. THEREFORE, THEY HAVE DECIDED TO CLOSE THE OFFICE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH FRIDAY. IN A FACEBOOK POST, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ISSUED AN APOLOGY TO THE PUBLIC BUT SAID IT IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT THEIR EMPLOYEES AND OTHERS. ANYONE NEEDING TO DO BUSINESS WITH CARENCRO POLICE, SUCH AS PAYING FINES OR PURCHASING A CRASH REPORT, IS ASKED TO DO SO ON THEIR WEBSITE, CARENCRO-P-D-DOT-COM.
PORT BARRE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT LEAVING TWO PEOPLE WOUNDED. POLICE CHIEF DEON BOUDREAUX SAYS THEY RECEIVED A CALL AT AROUND SEVEN-FORTY-FIVE LAST NIGHT ABOUT THE SHOOTING ON PACIFIC STREET AND, WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND A WOMAN SHOT IN THE BACK AND A MAN WITH A WOUND TO THE LEG. THE WOMAN WAS AIRLIFTED TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL PORT BARRE POLICE OR SAINT LANDRY CRIME STOPPERS AT NINE-FOUR-EIGHT-TIPS.
Louisiana lawmakers have chipped away at the laws that seek to avoid conflicts of interest for people holding public office. Two Republican-sponsored ethics exceptions passed by the House and Senate and signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards came over objections of the state Board of Ethics. One bill allows an immediate family member of a local school board member or school superintendent to work as a school bus driver. The other will let local government officials, members of parish and municipal planning and zoning boards and their family members file applications for residential property subdivisions, zoning and building permits even if their agency or board oversees such issues.
POLICE IN BREAUX BRIDGE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED OVER THE WEEKEND. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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