8-23-25
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAS LEFT A JUVENILE IN CRITICAL CONDITION. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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A MAURICE WOMAN DIED FRIDAY FROM INJURIES RECEIVED IN AN ACCIDENT THAT HAPPENED TUESDAY. ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, FIFTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD IVY HEBERT WAS DRIVING A PICKUP TRUCK NORTH ON L-A SEVEN HUNDRED WHEN, FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, SHE VEERED OFF THE ROAD AND OVER CORRECTED. SHE WENT BACK ACROSS THE ROAD, HITTING AN ENBANKMENT AND A UTILITY POLE, CAUSING HER VEHICLE TO FLIP. HEBERT WAS NOT WEARING A SEATBELT AND SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES, EVENTUALLY LEADING TO HER DEATH.
A LAKE CHARLES MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY ATTEMPTING TO KIDNAP A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. POLICE SAY THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD DUSTIN FREDERICK TRIED TO GRAB THE GIRL, WHO WAS WALKING IN THE AREA OF GLENN AND HAZEL STREETS.. POLICE SAY THE GIRL PUNCHED FREDERICK IN THE FACE AND FREDERICK LET GO AND FLED THE AREA IN HIS S-U-V. FREDERICK WAS LATER FOUND AND ARRESTED ON AN ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING CHARGE AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
A FORMER LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICER HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING DEATH THAT HAPPENED FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THE VICTIM IS FORTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD PHILLIP FRANCIS JUNIOR OF LAFAYETTE. HE ALLEGEDLY GOT INTO AN ALTERCATION WITH THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD KYLE JAGNEAUX, WHO IS NO LONGER SERVING AS AN OFFICER. JAGNEAUX WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON A CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. HIS BOND WAS SET AT FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
A SAINT LANDRY PARISH GRAND JURY HAS INDICTED AN OPELOUSAS MAN FOR THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER. THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD AARON LLOYD HAS BEEN FORMALLY CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. THE REMAINS OF HIS MOTHER, SIXTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD LISA LLOYD, ALSO OF OPELOUSAS, WERE FOUND BY POLICE OFFICERS IN A TRASH CAN TWO MONTHS AGO. INVESTIGATORS SAY AARON LLOYD ADMITTED TO INJECTING HIS MOTHER WITH METHAMPHETAMINE, BEATING HER TO DEATH, AND PLACING HER REMAINS IN THE TRASH CAN, WHERE HER BODY WAS FOUND.
A KINDER MAN WAS KILLED SATURDAY NIGHT IN A MOTORCYCLE CRASH IN ALLNE PARISH. STATE POLICE SAY MICHAEL DUPIN FAILED TO NEGOTIATE A CURVE ON CARPENTER’S BRIDGE ROAD WEST OF SIMMONS ROAD. HE STRUCK AN ENBANKMENT AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. A STANDARD TOXICOLOGY SAMPLE WAS TAKEN FROM DUPIN AND SUBMITTED FOR ANALYSIS.
A PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER BASED IN BROUSSARD HAS SUSPENDED OPERATIONS. FIVE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE EMPLOYEES WITH SAFE SOURCE DIRECT ARE NOW WITHOUT A JOB. MANDI MITCHELL WITH THE LAFAYETTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY SAYS THEY WILL WORK WITH THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, THE CITY OF BROUSSARD AND THE LOUISIANA WORKFORCE COMMISSION TO FIND NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DISPLACED WORKERS. SAFESOURCE DIRECT LAUNCHED IN TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE AS A JOINT VENTURE WITH OCHSNER HEALTH SYSTEM.
THE OPENING OF A NEW BUCEE’S TRAVEL CENTER IN LAFAYETTE HAS BEEN DELAYED. THE NEW OPENING DATE HAS BEEN MOVED BACK TWO YEARS TO TWENTY-TWENTY-EIGHT. REPRESENTATIVES FROM BUCEE’S HAVE NOT RELEASED REASONS FOR THE DELAY OR DISCLOSED WHEN CONSTRUCTION WILL BEGIN. LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT MONIQUE BOULET ATTRIBUTES THE DELAY TO WEATHER ISSUES.
