9-15-26
ONE PERSON WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN THE TWO HUNDRED BLOCK OF SURREY STREET IN LAFAYETTE LAST NIGHT. POLICE SAY THE VICTIM, TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD EPHRIM ROSE OF LAFAYETTE, WAS ATTEMPTING TO EXCHANGE ITEMS FOR MONEY. IT IS BELIEVED THE EXCHANGE LED TO A DISAGREEMENT, RESULTING IN THE SHOOTING. POLICE HAVE ARRESTED EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ASHER CORMIER OF RAYNE ON A CHARGE OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
A MAMOU MAN WAS ARRESTED ON A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. ON SUNDAY, THE OWNERS OF PROPERTY OFF OF L-A SEVEN FIFTY-SEVEN NEAR EUNICE APPROACHED AN ALLEGED TRESPASSER, FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD LAWRANCE KARM JUNIOR, WHO WAS IN A VEHICLE. KARM ALLEGEDLY PULLED A GUN ON THEM AND, WHEN TRYING TO LEAVE, STRUCK THE PROPERTY OWNER AND DRAGGED THE PROPERTY OWNER’S SON. THE EUNICE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT AND FIRE DISTRICT NUMBER SIX ASSISTED THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IN FINDING KARM, WHO IS BEING HELD IN THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH JAIL.
A TWO-VEHICLE CRASH ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, CAUSED BY A SUSPECTED DRUNK DRIVER, LEFT A FOUR-MONTH-OLD CHILD WITH LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. THE CRASH HAPPENED FRIDAY AFTER FOUR P-M ON L-A THREE-NINETY-FIVE IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH. THE CHILD WAS IN AN INFANT CARRIER IN THE FRONT SEAT AND WAS NOT PROPERLY ATTACHED TO THE SEAT. THE CHILD’S MOTHER, TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD TEYONNA WASHINGTON OF HOUSTON, WAS ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF FIRST-OFFENSE DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED AND FIRST-DEGREE VEHICULAR NEGLIGENT INJURING.
THE LOUISIANA INSURANCE MARKET GETS A BIG CHANGE. GEORGE FAUST EXPLAINS.
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LAFAYETTE POLICE STEPPED UP ENFORCEMENT IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA OVER THE WEEKEND. POLICE CHIEF PAUL TROUARD ISSUED A DIRECTIVE TO INCREASE ENFORCMENT DURING THE PEAK NIGHTLIFE AND ENTERTAINMENT HOURS. THEY ISSUED THIRTY-SIX PARKING CITATIONS AND TEN TRAFFIC CITATIONS AS WELL AS SIXTEEN OPEN-GLASS-CONTAINER VIOLATIONS, SEVEN OF THEM INVOLVING PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE. THERE WERE FOUR ARRESTS INCLUDING AN O-W-I ARREST AND ANOTHER INVOLVING BATTERY AND BATTERY ON A POLICE OFFICER.
STUDENTS WERE EVACUATED FROM PORT BARRE HIGH SCHOOL YESTERDAY BECAUSE OF A BOMB THREAT. THE THREAT WAS FOUND WRITTEN ON A BATHROOM WALL WITH A SPECIFIC DATE WHEN A BOMB WOULD GO OFF. AUTHORITIES DECLARED THE SCHOOL SAFE ABOUT AN HOUR-AND-A-HALF AFTER THE INITIAL CALL ABOUT THE THREAT. POLICE DEON BOUDREAUX SAYS OFFICERS ARE ACTIVELY WORKING TO LOCATE A SUSPECT.
A LAKE CHARLES MOTHER HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING HER SON AND ABANDONING HER BABY. IN TWENTY-TWENTY-FOUR, THE BODY OF TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD AALIYAH JACK’S FOUR-YEAR-SON WAS FOUND AT A VINTON REST STOP AND HER ONE-YEAR-OLD SON WAS FOUND ALIVE NEAR I-TEN. IT TOOK THE JURY AROUND THREE HOURS OF DELIBERATION BEFORE THEY CONVICTED HER OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND CHILD CRUELTY. JACK FACES A MANDATORY LIFE SENTENCE, AND THE SENTENCING IS SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER FIFTH.
EUNICE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING IN THE EIGHT HUNDRED BLOCK OF SOUTH BEULAH STREET, WHICH HAPPENED LAST FRIDAY. POLICE CHIEF KYLE LEBOUEF SAYS INITIAL REPORTS WERE TEN TO TWELVE SHOTS. HE SAYS, AFTER AN INVESTIGATION, THEY RECOVERED THIRTY-FOUR SHELL CASINGS FROM THREE DIFFERENT CALIBER WEAPONS. EUNICE POLICE ARE SEEEKING TO IDENTIFY SUSPECTS AND A MOTIVE IN THE SHOOTING.
