KAJN Jesus FM 102.9


9-16-20

A WOMAN WANTED ON FIVE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER FOR A SHOOTING IN CROWLEY WAS APPREHENDED IN ALEXANDRIA BY THE U-S MARSHALS SERVICE FUGITIVE TASK FORCE.  TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD LAQUAISHIA JOHNSON IS BELIEVED TO BE THE PERSON WHO FIRED SHOTS AT A HOME ON NORTH AVENUE F IN CROWLEY ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER SIXTH.  THE HOME WAS OCCUPIED BY WOMEN AND CHILDREN.  SHE HAS BEEN EXTRADITED TO THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL.

 

A JUDGE HAS ALLOWED OFFICIALS TO RELEASE POLICE BODY CAM FOOTAGE OF THE SHOOTING OF TRAFORD PELLERIN, BUT WITH RESTRICTIONS.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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ONLY FIFTY-EIGHT-POINT-SIX PERCENT OF LOUISIANA RESIDENTS HAVE RESPONDED TO THE 2020 CENSUS.  THAT’S WELL BELOW THE NATIONAL AVERAGE OF SIXTY-FIVE-POINT-FIVE PERCENT.  THE POPULATION OF A STATE DETERMINES THE NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES IT GETS IN THE U-S CONGRESS AND AFFECTS FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ROADS, SCHOOLS AND MORE.  LOUISIANA OFFICIALS HAVE HELD NEWS CONFERENCES AND PUT OUT POSTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO TRY TO GET RESIDENTS TO FILL OUT AND SEND IN THEIR CENSUS FORMS.

 

JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARRESTED AN OBERLIN MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY CARRIED A GUN ONTO THE CAMPUS AT ELTON ELEMENTARY YESTERDAY.  BY THE TIME DEPUTIES ARRIVED TO THE SCHOOL, TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD KEVIN DREMISKI DUPRE HAD LEFT BUT THEY LATER FOUND HIM AT A RESIDENCE ON NOAH STREET IN ELTON.  DURING TRANSPORT, DUPRE ALLEGEDLY KICKED THE BACK DOOR AND WINDOW FRAME IN THE SHERIFF’S UNIT, CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE DOOR.  DUPRE FACES NUMEROUS CHARGES INCLUDING POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON.

 

COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITAL NUMBERS CREPT UP FOR A SECOND CONSECUTIVE DAY.  THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTS ELEVEN MORE PATIENTS WITH COVID-NINETEEN IN THE HOSPITAL.  MEANWHILE THERE ARE EIGHT MORE PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS.  THERE WERE JUST OVER FIVE HUNDRED NEW CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN, AS THE TOTAL MOVES CLOSER TO ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE THOUSAND.  THERE ARE EIGHTEEN MORE DEATHS STATEWIDE.

 

ACADIANA HAD TWO OF THE DEATHS, PUTTING THE TOTAL AT SIX HUNDRED FORTY-SIX.  ONE WAS IN ST. MARTIN PARISH AND THE OTHER WAS IN VERMILLION PARISH.  THERE ARE FORTY-EIGHT NEW CASES IN THE REGION.  LAFAYETTE PARISH HAD THE MOST WITH TWENTY-TWO.

 

 

SOUTHWEST LOUISANA ALSO ADDED TWO MORE DEATHS.  THEY WERE BOTH IN CALCASIEU PARISH, WHICH HAS THE MOST DEATHS OF ANY PARISH IN EITHER SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA OR ACADIANA, WITH TWO HUNDRED FIVE TOTAL.  THERE ARE NINETEEN NEW CASES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA.  CALCASIEU PARISH RECORDED THE MOST WITH THIRTEEN.

 

AN OPELOUSAS MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR HIS PART IN AN ALTERCATION THAT LED TO A SHOOTING ON SEPTEMBER SIXTH JUST OUTSIDE OPELOUSAS CITY LIMITS.  THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD BRANDON RICHARD IS ACCUSED OF BRANDISHING A GUN, WARNING PEOPLE TO NOT GET INVOLVED IN A FIGHT BETWEEN JUVENILES IN FRONT OF GROLEE ELEMENTARY.  THE FIGHT DID NOT LAST LONG BUT IT LED TO THE SHOOTING IN WHICH ONE PERSON WAS KILLED.  RICHARD HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH FOUR COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A FIREARM AND ONE COUNT OF CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF A JUVENILE.