9-23-22
SEVERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES RESPONDED TO A HOME IN ABBEVILLE THURSDAY NIGHT AFTER A MAN BARRICADED HIMSELF INSIDE. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY HAS USED HIS LINE-ITEM VETO AUTHORITY TO RESTORE PAY RAISES THAT WERE REJECTED BY THE CITY AND PARISH COUNCILS. THE RAISES FOR FIFTEEN EMPLOYEES TOTALED TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS WITH SOME DIRECTORS SEEING THEIR SALARIES GO UP BY MORE THAN THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. GUILLORY INFORMED COUNCIL MEMBERS OF HIS DECISION VIA EMAIL. ON OCTOBER FOURTH, THE COUNCILS COULD VOTE TO OVERRIDE, BUT IT WOULD REQUIRE THE VOTES OF FOUR OUT OF FIVE MEMBERS ON EACH COUNCIL TO SUCCEED.
BETWEEN FIFTEEN AND TWENTY PARISH SCHOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS THE STATE RECEIVED ACTIVE SHOOTER HOAX CALLS YESTERDAY, WITH SIX OF THE PARISHES BEING IN ACADIANA. IN ALL CASES THE CALLS WERE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. TWO SCHOOLS WERE CLEARED IN IBERIA PARISH, WESTGATE AND DELCAMBRE HIGH. RAYNE HIGH SCHOOL WAS PUT ON LOCKDOWN BY POLICE BUT THE SCHOOL WAS CLEARED ABOUT FORTY-FIVE MINUTES LATER.
A TAILGATE EVENT AT WASHINGTON MARION HIGH SCHOOL, WHICH HAD BEEN CANCELLED, IS BACK ON AFTER A JUDGE SIGNED AN INJUNCTION PREVENTING THE CALCASIEU PARISH SCHOOL BOARD FROM CLOSING THE PARKING LOT. WASHINGTON-MARION CANCELLED THE TAILGATE WEDNESDAY AFTER A FIGHT BROKE OUT AT THE SCHOOL, LEADING TO TWO LOCKDOWNS AND TWO ARRESTS. THE SCHOOL AND THE CALCASIEU PARISH SCHOOL BOARD CITED SAFETY CONCERNS AS THE REASON FOR WANTING TO CANCEL THE TAILGATE. ATTORNEY WILFORD CARTER JUNIOR, WHO FILED FOR AN INJUNCTION ON BEHALF OF ORGANIZERS OF THE TAILGATE, QUESTIONED WHY IT WAS CANCELED BUT OTHER SCHOOL EVENTS WERE STILL ALLOWED LIKE THE HOMECOMING DANCE AND THE FOOTBALL GAME.
AN INMATE THAT ESCAPED FROM THE PINE PRAIRIE CORRECTIONAL CENTER IS BACK IN CUSTODY. EVANGELINE PARISH SHERIFF CHARLES GUILLORY SAYS THE INMATE, TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD KONSTANTIN LAVRENTEV OF RUSSIA, WAS FOUND ABOUT THREE MILES FROM THE FACILITY. LAVRENTEV FLAGGED DOWN OFFICERS AND WAS UNARMED.
TWO PEOPLE WERE SHOT AND WOUNDED LATE LAST NIGHT ON STERNBERG STREET IN LAFAYETTE. THE TWO WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL BUT THEIR IDENTITIES HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED. SOME RESIDENTS IN THE AREA TOLD KLFY TV THEY HEARD, WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS, FIREWORKS, BUT WHEN THEY LOOKED OUTSIDE, THEY SAW A PASSENGER IN A WHITE VEHICLE STANDING THROUGH THE SUNROOF AND SPRAYING BULLETS. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL LAFAYETTE CRIMESTOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.
The Louisiana Department of Health says preliminary federal data shows the state has the nation’s fourth-highest rate of dangerous West Nile virus infections, so people should protect themselves from mosquitoes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says only South Dakota, Colorado and North Dakota have higher rates of infections affecting the brain or nervous system. So far this year, 33 people in Louisiana are known to have “neuroinvasive” West Nile infections, and five of them have died. That compares to 10 cases or fewer at this time in each of the past three years, and to 29 cases in 2017 and 48 in 2018.
GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS WAS IN SAINT MARTIN PARISH YESTERDAY TO PARTICIPATE IN A GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY FOR THE NEW CAJUN BROADBAND FIBER INTERNET. THIS IS THE FIRST BROADBAND INITIATIVE PROJECT FUNDED BY A GUMBO GRANT, GUMBO STANDING FOR GRANTING UNSERVED MUNICIPALITIES BROADBAND OPPORTUNTITIES. THE PROJECT WILL BRING HIGH SPEED INTERNET TO OVER SIX HUNDRED LOCATIONS IN RURAL SAINT MARTIN PARISH. GOVERNOR EDWARDS SAYS THE GOAL IS FOR EVERY SINGLE ADDRESS, BOTH RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESS, IN THE STATE TO HAVE ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE TRUE HIGH-SPEED INTERNET BY TWENTY-TWENTY-NINE.
