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9-28-17

THE VICTIM IN A FATAL SHOOTING IN THE HUB CITY EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A 41-YEAR-OLD LAFAYETTE MAN.  JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.

 

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LAKE CHARLES POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A MAN ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AND KILLING A TEN-YEAR-OLD BOY AND WOUNDING A 17-YEAR-OLD ON NORTH SHATTUCK STREET.  POLICE CHIEF DON DIXON SAYS 50-YEAR-OLD FELTON THOMPSON IS THE MAN THEY BELIEVE ENTERED A HOME AND KILLED TEN-YEAR-OLD JAYLEN CITIZEN AND, HE SAYS, THE 17-YEAR-OLD MAY NEVER WALK AGAIN.  DIXON SAYS THEY DON’T KNOW WHY THOMPSON PICKED THAT HOME OR WHY HE WAS IN LAKE CHARLES.  THOMPSON, WHO WAS PAROLED LAST YEAR FROM A 99-YEAR SENTENCE FOR ARMED ROBBERY, WAS ARRESTED IN NEW ORLEANS AT AROUND ONE A-M YESTERDAY.

 

SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES IN ST. MARTIN PARISH ARRESTED A BREAUX BRIDGE MAN FOR SHOOTING ANOTHER MAN IN THE PARKING LOT OF AN ARNAUDVILLE BUSINESS.  IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY AT AROUND 12:30 A-M AFTER AN ALTERCATION BETWEEN 26-YEAR-OLD GAGE PATIN AND A 55-YEAR-OLD MAN.  PATIN ALLEGEDLY SHOT THE OTHER MAN IN THE BACK OF THE LEG, WHO WAS AFTERWARDS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN STABLE CONDITION.  PATIN WAS BOOKED INTO THE ST. MARTIN PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON CHARGES OF AGGRAVATED BATTERY AND FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR A PREVIOUS WARRANT.

 

Louisiana’s health department is suing more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of worsening opioid abuse in the state.  The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Baton Rouge district court, says the drug manufacturers used marketing tactics that misrepresent the dangers of long-term opioid usage.  Gov. John Bel Edwards, in a statement, says the companies led people to believe the drugs weren’t addictive. The health department says lawsuits also were filed last week by local sheriffs in Avoyelles, Lafayette, Jefferson Davis and Rapides parishes.

 

FIVE PEOPLE WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER THEY WERE FOUND UNCONSCIOUS OUTSIDE A DINER FOR THE HOMELESS IN LAFAYETTE.  IT’S BELIEVED THEY WERE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SPICE OR K-2, WHICH IS A SYNTHETIC MARIJUANA.  THE FIVE WERE LISTED IN STABLE CONDITION AT A HOSPITAL AND AN INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUING.  SYNTHETIC MARIJUANA IS ILLEGAL IN LOUISIANA, BUT IT IS LEGAL IN OTHER STATES.

 

 

A MOTORCYCLIST WAS KILLED IN A CRASH WITH ANOTHER VEHICLE IN CALCASIEU PARISH AT AROUND FIVE A-M.  STATE POLICE REPORT THAT THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE, 24-YEAR-OLD GUSTAVO CORPUS OF TEXAS, WAS TRAVELING EAST ON JIM PICKENS ROAD AND THEN ENTERED L-A 27 TO MAKE A TURN AND CROSSED THE PATH OF THE MOTORCYCLIST.  24-YEAR-OLD STEFFAN RUSSELL HARDESTY OF DEQUINCY, THE MOTOROCYCLIST, STRUCK THE VEHICLE AND LATER DIED FROM HIS INJURIES.  CORPUS WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO YIELD AT A STOP SIGN AND DRIVING WITH A SUSPENDED LICENSE.

 

OPELOUSAS POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A WOMAN WANTED FOR SHOOTING SOMEONE ON SUNDAY NIGHT.  THE SHOOTING HAPPENED IN THE 13-HUNDRED BLOCK OF GLOSTON STREET.  THE VICTIM SUFFERED A GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE GROIN AND WAS HOSPITALIZED IN STABLE CONDITION.  THE SUSPECT IS 18-YEAR-OLD JASMINE VAUGHNS WHO IS WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER.  ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHERE VAUGNS IS SHOULD CALL THE OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT.

 

Gov. John Bel Edwards says he’s talked to New Orleans Saints officials about several players’ refusal to stand during the national anthem.  Louisiana’s governor said Wednesday that he hasn’t talked to team owner Tom Benson, but that he’s had conversations with “individuals in the Saints organization” about the protest in Sunday’s game against the Carolina Panthers.  Edwards wouldn’t provide specifics about what was discussed in those talks, but said the conversations were an “effort to make sure we get this resolved.”  The governor said he believes players have more constructive ways to express their concerns than kneeling or sitting during the national anthem.