8-31-26
BOTH EASTBOUND LANES OF I-TEN NEAR CROWLEY WERE CLOSED LAST NIGHT. IT WAS CAUSED BY A FIERY CRASH INVOLVING AN EIGHTEEN-WHEELER AT MILE MARKER SEVENTY-NINE. TRAFFIC WAS DIVERTED AT THE EGAN EXIT. THE EASTBOUND LANES HAVE SINCE BEEN OPENED.
THE HEAVILY DECOMPOSED BODY OF A MAN WAS FOUND DURING THE DEMOLITION OF THE FORMER LAQUINTA INN ON THE EVANGELINE THRUWAY IN LAFAYETTE. A WORKER FOUND THE BODY THURSDAY NIGHT AT AROUND SEVEN WHILE WORKING NEAR ONE OF THE BUILDINGS. OFFICIALS DETERMINED THE BODY HAD BEEN DEAD FOR SOME TIME BEFORE THE DEMOLITION BEGAN. THEY SAID THE BODY WAS IN SUCH A STATE OF DECOMPOSITION THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO IDENTIFY HIM QUICKLY.
A LAKE CHARLES MAN WAS KILLED THURSDAY IN A TWO-VEHICLE CRASH ON HGHWAY ONE SIXTY-FIVE NEAR IOWA. ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE TROOPERS, FIFTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD SHANNON DUPLECHAIN WAS DRIVING A BOX TRUCK SOUTH WHEN THE DRIVER OF A DUMP TRUCK FAILED TO YIELD WHILE CROSSING THE HIGHWAY AND STRUCK THE BOX TRUCK. DUPLECHAIN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE LATER DIED. THE DRIVER OF THE BOX TRUCK HAD MINOR INJURIES. IMPAIRMENT IS NOT SUSPECTED AS A FACTOR.
TWO SUSPECTS IN AN ARMED ROBBERY AND STABBING IN SAINT MARY PARISH HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. THE VICTIM WAS ALLEGEDLY TARGETED DURING A ROBBERY IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF SATURDAY ON HIGHWAY ONE EIGHTY-TWO AND WAS STABBED, ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES. TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD DAMARCUS MCNEAL OF FRANKLIN WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY ON CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND ARMED ROBBERY. PRECIOUSLY ARRESTED ON THE SAME CHARGES WAS TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD KLOEY CULLIVER OF PATTERSON.
CROWLEY POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A FATAL SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED FRIDAY NIGHT. AT AROUND NINE-THIRTY. THAT NIGHT, A MAN WHO HAD BEEN SHOT, RAN TO THE PORCH OF A HOUSE IN THE AREA OF EAST THIRTEENTH STREET AND NORTHERN AVENUE. THE MAN, WHOSE NAME HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED, DIED AT THE SCENE. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS OF ACADIA PARISH AT SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS.
THE DRIVER IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH IN LAFAYETTE SATURDAY WAS KILLED AND A PASSENGER WAS IN SERIOUS BUT STABLE CONDITION. THE DRIVER HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS SEVENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD PAULETTE VITO OF NEW IBERIA. SHE WAS TRAVELING NORTH IN THE THIRTEEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF SOUTH COLLEGE ROAD WHEN, FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, SHE STRUCK A CURB, LEFT THE ROADWAY AND HIT A UTILITY POLE. IMPAIRMENT IS NOT BELIEVED TO BE A FACTOR IN THE CRASH.
STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A CRASH IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH INVOLVING A PEDESTRIAN. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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AN ARREST HAS BEEN MADE IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED OUTSIDE CHIP’S DAIQUIRIES IN EUNICE JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY, AUGUST TWENTY-SECOND. TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND THREE OTHERS WOUNDED. POLICE CHIEF KYLE LEBOUEF SAYS THE U-S MARSHAL’S TASK FORCE ARRESTED TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD DASHAWN DOYLE OF EUNICE IN LAKE CHARLES WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE. DOYLE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND PRINCIPAL TO SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
