9-21-20
A LAFAYETTE MOTHER AND HER SIX-YEAR-OLD SON WERE STRUCK AND KILLED SATURDAY NIGHT BY A DRIVER SUSPECTED OF BEING IMPAIRED. THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD JASMUN OZENNE WAS WAITING WITH HER THREE CHILDREN TO CROSS THE EVANGELINE THRUWAY WHEN SHE AND HER SIX-YEAR-OLD SON WERE HIT BY A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY SIXTY-YEAR-OLD PRESTON EDWARD OF LAFAYETTE. EDWARD HAS BEEN ARRESTED ON TWO COUNTS OF VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE AND ONE COUNT OF O-W-I AND BOND WAS SET AT ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. THE TWO OTHER CHILDREN WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR OBSERVATION.
POLICE IN BREAUX BRIDGE HAVE ARRESTED A MAN WHO, THEY SAY, SHOT AND KILLED A MAN AFTER A DISPUTE OUTSIDE AN APARTMENT COMPLEX LATE SATURDAY. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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ALL FEMA OPERATIONS IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA WILL BE CLOSED TODAY. THAT’S BECAUSE OF THE APPROACH OF TROPICAL STORM BETA, WHICH IS NOW EXPECTED TO COME INTO SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AS A TROPICAL DEPRESSION LATE WEDNESDAY OR EARLY THURSDAY. THAT MEANS ALL DRIVE-THROUGH DISASTER RECOVERY CENTERS AND MOBILE REGISTRATION INTAKE CENTERS ARE CLOSED IN JEFF DAVIS, CALCASIEU, ALLEN, CAMERON AND BEAUREGARD PARISHES. YOU CAN STILL CALL FEMA AT 1-800-621-33-62 OR GO ONLINE TO DISASTER ASSISTANCE-DOT-GOV.
TROPICAL STORM BETA COULD BE A MAJOR RAIN EVENT CAUSING FLASH FLOODING AS IT TRAVELS THROUGH LOUISIANA LATER THIS WEEK. RIGHT NOW, IT’S PROJECTED TO TRAVEL THROUGH ST. LANDRY PARISH SOMETIME ON THURSDAY. THE ST. LANDRY PARISH GOVERNMENT IS ISSUING SANDBAGS TO RESIDENTS AT THE YAMBILEE BUILDING ON HIGHWAY ONE NINETY IN OPELOUSAS THROUGH TONIGHT. CALCASIEU PARISH HAS SANDBAG SITES AT THE WARD THREE RECREATION CENTER IN LAKE CHARLES, THE WARD ONE RECREATION BALL FIELDS IN MOSS BLUFF AND AT THE FORMER OLD TYME VARIETY STORE IN SULPHUR.
A LAFAYETTE COUPLE WERE KILLED IN A PLANE CRASH YESTERDAY NEAR WACO, TEXAS. KENNETH AND MISSY LYN HIX, BOTH FIFTY-NINE-YEARS-OLD, WERE AMONG THE FOUR IN THE PLANE THAT WERE KILLED. THE PLAN CRASHED ABOUT FIFTY MINUTES AFTER IT DEPARTED HORSHOE BAY, TEXAS ON THE WAY TO NATCHITOCHES, LOUISIANA. THE CRASH WAS IN AN OPEN FIELD.
HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID-NINETEEN ARE DOWN BELOW SIX HUNDRED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MONTHS IN LOUISIANA. IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WHICH COVERS TWO DAYS, THE NUMBER OF HOSPITALIZATIONS DROPPED BY FIFTY-ONE, WHILE THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS WENT DOWN BY FOUR TO ONE HUNDRED TOTAL. THERE WERE TWENTY-SIX DEATHS REPORTED. THE NUMBER OF TOTAL CASES INCREASED BY NINE HUNDRED THIRTY-SIX TO MOVE THE TOTAL OVER ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE THOUSAND.
THERE WAS JUST ONE DEATH OVER A TWO DAY PERIOD IN ACADIANA, WHICH WAS IN ST. MARY PARISH. THE OVERALL TOTAL IS SIX HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX. THERE WERE ONE HUNDRED NINE NEW CASES. THE MOST WERE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH WITH FIFTY-ONE ADDITIONAL COVID-NINETEEN CASES.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD TWO MORE COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS, BOTH IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THE TOTAL IS THREE-HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE. FORTY-EIGHT NEW CASES WERE ADDED, THIRTY-SIX OF THEM IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THAT MOVES THE TOTAL PAST ELEVEN THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED.
The second search for a new Lafayette police chief ended with six more candidates applying to lead the department. The Daily Advertiser reports that Lafayette’s Fire and Police Civil Service Board voted unanimously to reopen the search for a new police chief on Aug. 12. Only one of the applicants is from out of state. In January, Toby Aguillard was forced out as police chief when Josh Guillory became Mayor President of Lafayette and Lieutenant Scott Morgan has served as interim chief since then.
