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PORT BARRE POLICE HAVE ISSUED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD SUSPECTED OF SHOOTING TWO PEOPLE ON PACIFIC STREET SUNDAY NIGHT. POLICE CHIEF DEON BOUDREAUX SAYS THEY WENT TO ARREST THE SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD MALE AT HIS HOME BUT HE WASN’T THERE. THE SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD WAS HIMSELF SHOT ON JUNE EIGHTH DURING A FIGHT WITH ANOTHER JUVENILE WHEN A THIRD JUVENILE BEGAN SHOOTING AND FLED THE SCENE. BOUDREAUX SAYS THEY HAVE AN ARREST WARRANT FOR THE THIRD JUVENILE IN THE JUNE EIGHTH SHOOTING BUT HE HASN’T YET BEEN FOUND.
A FIRE AT AROUND MIDNIGHT MONDAY MORNING AT A HOUSE IN LAFAYETTE WAS CAUSED BY THE IMPROPER DISPOSAL OF FIREWORKS. SCOTT FIRE CHIEF CHAD SONNIER SAYS FIREWORKS THAT HAD BEEN POPPED WERE STILL SMOKING WHEN THEY WERE PUT IN A TRASH BIN NEXT TO THE HOUSE. HE SAYS IT SMOULDERED IN THE TRASH BIN EVENTUALLY BECOMING A FIRE THAT SPREAD UP THE WALL AND INTO THE ATTIC. THE FAMILY MADE IT OUT OF THEIR HOUSE SAFELY BUT A FIREFIGHTER WAS INJURED.
FORMER GOVERNOR EDWIN EDWARDS IS IN HOSPICE CARE AT HIS HOME IN GONZALES. THE NINETY-THREE-YEAR-OLD HAS COMPLAINED OF SIGNIFICANT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT LUNG. THE DECISION WAS MADE TO ENTER HOSPICE CARE AFTER EDWARDS MADE A TRIP TO THE HOSPITAL SUNDAY BECAUSE OF LOW BLOOD OXYGEN AND BLOOD PRESSURE. HIS WIFE, TRINA, SAYS EDWARDS STRENGTH HAS BEEN FAILING IN RECENT WEEKS, BUT HE’S RALLIED BEFORE AND THAT’S WHAT THEY ARE PRAYING WILL HAPPEN THIS TIME.
THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF A KINDER MAN, WHO WENT MISSING LAST WEDNESDAY, ARE CALLING IT A MIRACLE THAT HE WAS FOUND ON SATURDAY. TWENTY-YEAR-OLD MORRIS WILLIAMS, WHO IS AUTISTIC, LEFT HIS HOME ON FOOT EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING AND WAS FOUND BY SEARCHERS SATURDAY IN A HEAVILY WOODED AREA. HE WAS MISSING FOR EIGHTY-TWO HOURS AND MANY WERE WORRIED HE WOULDN’T SURVIVE. THE VOLUNTEER WHO FOUND WILLIAMS JUST TEN MINUTES INTO HIS SEARCH SAID HE FELT DIVINELY LED TO HIM.
A PRAIRIEVILLE WOMAN WAS KILLED IN A CRASH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT IN VERMILLION PARISH. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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A MAN WHO WAS SHOT SOMEWHERE IN LAFAYETTE, DROVE HIMSELF TO OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER SUNDAY NIGHT. A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE HOSPITAL SAYS THE MAN HIT A CURB IN THE MEDIAN UPON ARRIVAL BUT DID NOT CAUSE ANY STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO THE HOSPITAL. THE MAN REFUSED TO COOPERATE WITH POLICE WHEN THEY ASKED HIM QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SHOOTING. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.
Ballots have gone out for Louisiana lawmakers to decide whether to hold a historic veto override session. Heavy pressure is pouring in from outside groups trying to sway that decision, and a heated debate is taking shape on social media sites. Gov. John Bel Edwards rejected 28 bills from the regular session, and struck out a handful of legislative pet projects from budget bills. Ballots are due July 15.
OFFICIALS WITH EGAN WATER SAY A WATER TRANSFER WILL BE CONDUCTED BEGINNING AT TEN-THIRTY THIS MORNING. THEY SAY CUSTOMERS WILL SEE A FLUCTUATION IN WATER PRESSURE DURING THE TRANSFER. CUSTOMERS IN LYONS POINT, MORSE AND MERMENTAU MAY EXPERIENCE CHANGES IN WATER PRESSURE DURING THE WORK. A BOIL WATER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE AREA.
