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TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND THREE OTHERS WOUNDED IN A SHOOTING JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT SATURDAY OUTSIDE CHIP’S DAQUIRIS IN EUNICE. THE DECEASED HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD DAVION FUGETT OF OPELOUSAS AND THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD RICO MORGAN OF EUNICE. ONE PERSON WAS TAKEN TO A BATON ROUGE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION. POLICE ARE ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM NEARBY BUSINESSES AND SEEKING TO IDENTIFY WITNESSES IN AN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED.
ON THURSDAY, A JUDGE DENIED A MOTION TO SUPPRESS SOCIAL MEDIA EVIDENCE AGAINST A MAN CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. BRAYLON SEMIEN OF GIBSON IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING TO DEATH A MAN ON MALAPART ROAD IN LAFAYETTE. SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWED SEMIEN SPEAKING WITH THE VICTIM PRIOR TO THE SHOOTING. THE TRIAL IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN NEXT MONDAY.
A DEQUINCY WOMAN WAS KILLED SATURDAY EVENING IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH. STATE POLICE SAY FIFTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD JOANN FAIRCHILD WAS TRAVELING NORTH ON L-A ONE-OH-NINE WHEN SHE ATTEMPTED TO PASS A VEHICLE IN A NO PASSING ZONE. THEY SAY WHEN SHE ATTEMPTED TO GET BACK IN HER LANE, SHE WENT OFF THE ROAD, STRIKING A UTILITY POLE. FAIRCHILD, WHO WASN’T WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR THE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER WHO WAS KILLED IN A CRASH ON FRIDAY. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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LAFAYETTE POLICE SAY TWO MEN ALLEGEDLY SHOT AT EACH OTHER AT AROUND ONE A-M FRIDAY AT THE ACADIAN MANOR APARTMENTS ON JEFFREY DRIVE. SENIOR CORPORAL TYLER MITCHAM SAYS, WHEN POLICE ARRIVED, THEY FOUND ONE MAN AT AN APARTMENT WITH GUNSHOT WOUNDS, AND THE OTHER WOUNDED MAN A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY. THEY ARE CURRENTLY IN STABLE CONDITION AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL. THE TWO MEN KNEW EACH OTHER AND INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY BELIEVE IT IS AN ISOLATED SHOOTING WITH NO ONGOING THREAT TO PEOPLE IN THE AREA.
A MAJOR STORM FRIDAY NIGHT PRODUCED WINDS UP TO SIXTY-SEVEN MILES AN HOUR AT THE IBERIA PARISH AIRPORT. THE STORM CAUSED TREES TO FALL ON HOUSES AND POWER OUTAGES. PARISH PRESIDENT LARRY RICHARD SAID SATURDAY THEY WERE WORKING TO GET EVERYTHING OFF THE ROADWAYS. THERE WERE ALSO REPORTS OF DOWNED TREES AND POWERLINES IN LAFAYETTTE PARISH AND, IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH, THE STORM TORE THE ROOF OFF OF A HOUSE IN GRAND PRAIRIE.
A CANDIDATE FOR CHURCH POINT POLICE CHIEF HAS A CRIMINAL PAST, ACCORDING TO KADN TV. TERRENCE GARRICK JUNIOR HAS BEEN ARRESTED SEVERAL TIMES SINCE TWO THOUSAND NINE, BUT WAS NEVER FORMALLY CHARGED ABOVE A MISDEMEANOR LEVEL. HE ACCUMULATED MORE THAN A YEAR IN COMBINED JAIL SENTENCES BUT NEVER SERVED THAT TIME. INSTEAD, HE RECEIVED PROBATION EACH TIME.
THE OPELOUSAS CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A THIRTY-SEVEN MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THAT EXCEEDS ANTICIPATED REVENUES BY FOUR MILLION. THE SHORTFALL STEMS FROM THE CITY’S FAILURE TO PUT A SALES TAX RENEWAL BEFORE VOTERS PRIOR TO IT EXPIRING. THE TAX, WHICH GENERATES SIX MILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY, WAS PUT ON THE BALLOT IN AUGUST AND VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVED IT.
