8-12-24
PORT BARRE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR TWO SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLDS WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. A VERBAL ALTERCATION AT A CONVENIENCE STORE BETWEEN TWO GROUPS OF GUYS LED TO THE SHOOTING, ACCORDING TO POLICE CHIEF DEON BOUDREAUX. A NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD WAS SHOT IN THE NECK AND IS RECOVERING. POLICE, WITH HELP FROM THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S SWAT TEAM, SEARCHED THE HOMES OF THE TWO SUSPECTS YESTERDAY BUT WERE NOT ABLE TO FIND THEM.
A SCOTT MAN IS DEAD AFTER A CRASH FRIDAY NIGHT IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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A JENNINGS MAN WAS ARRESTED SATURDAY MORNING IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED FRIDAY EVENING. NO ONE WAS INJURED IN THE SHOOTING, WHICH WAS REPORTED AT AROUND SIX P-M FRIDAY ON BRYAN STREET. TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD KAYNAN MONTAE DESHOTEL WAS BOOKED INTO THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH JAIL ON TWO COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. HE ALSO FACES CHARGES OF ILLEGAL CARRYING AND DISCHARGE OF WEAPONS AS WELL AS TWO COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
A NEW IBERIA MAN WAS KILLED AT AROUND SEVEN A-M SATURDAY MORNING IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH. ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD RIDGE BELAIRE DROVE A CHEVY TAHOE OFF THE SIDE OF L-A THREE-FORTY-SEVEN IN SAINT MARTINVILLE FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, HITTING A DITCH AND OVERTURNING THE VEHICLE. BELAIRE, WHO WASN’T WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS EJECTED AND DIED AT THE SCENE, WHILE A PASSENGER IN HIS VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH SEVERE INJURIES. ROUTINE TOXICOLOGY SAMPLES WERE TAKEN FOR ANALYSIS.
A SAINT MARTINVILLE MAN IS FACING AN ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER CHARGE AFTER ALLEGEDLY SETTING HIS GIRLFRIEND’S HOME ON FIRE. ACCORDING TO SAINT MARTINVILLE POLICE, THEY WERE RESPONDING TO A DOMESTIC COMPLAINT WHEN TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD BRANDON HAVILAND BARRICADED HIMSELF INSIDE AND SET A FIRE NEAR THE DOOR, CAUSING THE LIVING ROOM TO CATCH ON FIRE. POLICE FORCED THEIR WAY IN, FREEING THE GIRLFRIEND WHILE HAVILAND RAN OUT THE BACK DOOR. POLICE CAPTURED HIM AND BOOKED HIM FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE PARISH JAIL FOR ARSON AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.
LAFAYETTE PARISH PROPERTY OWNERS MAY SEE HIGHER PROPERTY TAXES IN DECEMBER. THAT’S BECAUSE PROPERTIES WERE REASSESSED LAST YEAR AND THEIR VALUES WENT UP ABOUT SIX-POINT-FIVE PERCENT OVERALL, ACCORDING TO PARISH ASSESSOR CONRAD COMEAUX. HE SAYS GOVERNING BODIES ARE REQUIRED TO ROLL BACK THE MILLAGES SO THEY ARE COLLECTING THE SAME AMOUNT OF TAXES, BUT, BY A TWO-THIRDS VOTE, THEY CAN KEEP THE MILLAGE THE SAME AND COLLECT MORE TAXES. THE LAFAYETTE PARISH AND CITY COUNCILS WILL DECIDE WHAT THEY WILL DO ON SEPTEMBER SEVENTEENTH.
LAKE CHARLES BUSINESSMAN AND WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN JOE STOMA DIED AT THE AGE OF NINETY-NINE. STOMA SERVED IN THE NAVY AND WAS DEPLOYED TO THE PACIFIC THEATRE OF OPERATIONS DURING WORLD WAR TWO. HE LATER OPENED A CLOTHING STORE IN SULPHUR AND MOVED IT TO THIRD AVENUE IN LAKE CHARLES, WHERE IT WOULD BECOME S-AND-M BARGAIN CITY. A MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL WILL BE HELD NEXT MONDAY AT TEN-THIRTY A-M AT THE CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION IN LAKE CHARLES.
A PEDESTRIAN WAS KILLED JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT FRIDAY IN A HIT-AND-RUN IN ACADIA PARISH. THE VICTIM, FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD COBY ORTEGO OF VILLE PLATTE, WAS STRUCK BY AN UNKNOWN VEHICLE NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF THE I-TEN SERVICE ROAD AND JASMINE ROAD. ORTEGO WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. STATE POLICE DO NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE VEHICLE INVOLVED. IF ANYONE HAS INFORMATION ON THE HIT-AND-RUN, THEY ARE URGED TO CALL STATE POLICE TROOP I.
