7-6-23
A MAN, WHO WAS SHOT IN THE FIVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF WEST GILMAN STREET IN LAFAYETTE, LATER DIED FROM HIS INJURIES AT THE HOSPITAL. TWENTY-YEAR-OLD KVON O-NEIL OF LAFAYETTE WAS SHOT EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON YESTERDAY. A JUVENILE HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO THE SHOOTING. THE JUVENILE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH EIGHT COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT TO SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
SOME OPELOUSAS RESIDENTS ARE UPSET WITH THE UPKEEP AT THE MYRTLE GROVE CEMETARY. MINDY FONTENOT, WHO’S FATHER AND GRANDFATHER’S BODIES WERE BURIED AT THE CEMETARY, SAYS THE GRAVESITES ARE COVERED IN GRASS AND TREES ARE GROWING OVER HER FATHER’S GRAVE. FONTENOT TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE CEMETARY HAS GONE DOWNHILL SINCE HER FATHER’S BODY WAS BURIED THERE IN TWO THOUSAND EIGHT AND SHE HASN’T SEEN ANY CHANGES SINCE THEN. SHE SAYS SHE’S MADE SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT THE CITY TO GET THE GRASS CUT.
GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS HAS VETOED A NEW CANVASS OF THE STATE’S VOTER ROLLS. IF IT HAD BEEN APPROVED, MAILERS WOULD HAVE BEEN SENT TO ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO THOUSAND VOTERS WHO HAVE BEEN INACTIVE FOR TEN YEARS. IF THEY DIDN’T RESPOND, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN PUT ON AN INACTIVE LIST AND THEN REMOVED FROM VOTER ROLLS IF THEY DIDN’T PARTICIPATE IN THE NEXT TWO FEDERAL ELECTIONS. SECRETARY OF STATE KYLE ARDOIN HAS CALLED ON LEGISLATORS TO OVERTURN THE GOVERNOR’S VETO, BUT IT’S NOT CLEAR IF THE LEGISLATURE WILL DO SO.
JENNINGS POLICE HAVE ARRESTED TWENTY-YEAR-OLD KETRON ALEXANDER IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD DEONTRAE EDWARDS. POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE OF THE SHOOTING AT AROUND TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE YESTERDAY MORNING. EDWARDS WAS SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES DURING A HOME INVASION. POLICE IDENTIFIED ALEXANDER AS A SUSPECT AFTER TALKING TO WITNESSES AND HE WAS ARRESTED AFTER BEING FOUND HIDING IN A CLOSET IN A HOUSE ON WINNIE STREET.
THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS SEEKING THE PUBLIC’S HELP IN FINDING AN ENDANGERED RUNAWAY TEENAGER. FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD KEAGAN MUSSON IS FIVE-THREE, ONE HUNDRED TEN POUNDS, WITH BLOND HAIR AND BLUE EYES. HE WAS LAST SEEN IN LIVINGSTON PARISH ON JUNE TWENTY-THIRD. ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHERE MUSSON IS LOCATED IS ASKED TO CALL THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE OR CRIMESTOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.
THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A TEENAGER, WHO WAS BELIEVED TO BE THE VICTIM IN A SHOOTING SUNDAY AT THE KATHY APARTMENTS. SHERIFF K-P GIBSON SAYS DEPUTIES WERE INVESTIGATING THE SHOOTING MONDAY WHEN THE FAMILY OF EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD TYLON WASHINGTON FILED A MISSING PERSON’S REPORT. DEPUTIES BEGAN A SEARCH AND FOUND WASHINGTON’S BODY IN AN OUT-OF-THE-WAY AREA. HE SAYS WASHINGTON MAY HAVE BEEN RUNNING FROM THE AREA WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY GUNFIRE.
DESPITE THE SWELTERING TEMPERATURES IN JUNE, ENTERGY CUSTOMERS ARE BEING TOLD NOT TO EXPECT THE PRICE SHOCKS OF LAST JUNE. THAT’S BECAUSE THE COST OF NATURAL GAS IS WAY DOWN AS A RESULTT OF AN EASING OF SUPPLY PRESSURES. ENTERGY GENERATES ALMOST SIXTY PERCENT OF ITS POWER FROM NATURAL GAS, WHICH IS ABOUT TWICE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. THE COST FOR A HOUSEHOLD GENERATING A THOUSAND KILOWATT-HOURS OF ELECTRICITY WAS ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS LAST YEAR BUT THE COST FOR THAT SAME POWER IN JUNE THIS YEAR WAS ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FOUR DOLLARS.
THE MAYOR OF NEW IBERIA IS ASKING FOR ANYONE WITH A HOME OR COMMERCIAL BUILDING THAT NEEDS TO COME DOWN TO CALL CITY HALL. NEW IBERIA HAS RECEIVED A PROPERTY CLEARANCE GRANT FROM THE STATE BUT THE CITY HAS TO REACH A MINIMUM GOAL OF ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN DEMOLITION PROJECTS AND A MAXIMUM OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND. THE DEADLINE TO GET PROPERTIES ON THE DEMOLITION LIST IS JULY THIRTEENTH. MAYOR FREDDIE DECOURT TELLS KLFY TV IT’S AN OPPORTUNITY TO ACCOMMODATE CITIZENS, CLEAN UP THE TOWN AND MAKE PROPERTY READY FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT.
