9-30-24
A TEENAGER HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING IN EUNICE THAT PUT ONE MAN IN THE HOSPITAL. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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THERE HAS BEEN A SPIKE IN MOTORCYCLE CRASHES THIS YEAR IN LAFAYETTE INCLUDING TWO LAST WEEK, RESULTING IN ONE DEATH AND ONE IN CRITICAL CONDITION. SO FAR THIS YEAR, THERE HAVE BEEN EIGHTY-EIGHT MOTORCYCLE CRASHES IN LAFAYETTE, INCLUDING THREE CRASHES RESULTING IN DEATHS AND FIVE IN SERIOUS INJURIES. LAFAYETTE OFFICIALS SAY MOTORCYCLISTS NEED TO BE MORE CAREFUL. RON CZAJKOWSKI OF THE ACADIANA PLANNING COMMISSION SAYS MOTORCYCLISTS, BECAUSE OF THEIR VULNERABILITY, NEED TO BE ACTIVE IN THEIR OWN SAFETY WHILE DRIVING.
A FORMER LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE DIED LAST WEEK IN GAINSVILLE, GEORGIA. THE HONORABLE JUSTICE MARCUS R. CLARK DIED WEDNESDAY AT THE AGE OF SIXTY-EIGHT. CLARK WAS ELECTED TO THE SUPREME COURT IN TWO THOUSAND NINE AND SERVED UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN TWENTY-TWENTY. CLARK WAS BORN AND RAISED IN SULPHUR WHERE HE GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL.
A PERSON OF INTEREST IN A DEADLY ROBBERY IN BEAUMONT, WHO WAS BELIEVED HIDING IN LOUISIANA, WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH MURDER. TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD DCOREY SHILLOW WAS BROUGHT IN BY HIS FAMILY. SHILLOW AND TWO OTHERS WERE SEEN ON SURVEILLANCE CAMERA IN THE ATTEMPTED ROBBERY IN WHICH A HOMEOWNER WAS SHOT AND KILLED. ON SATURDAY, POLICE BELIEVED SHILLOW WAS HIDING OUT POSSIBLY IN THE SULPHUR AREA WITH FAMILY.
OPELOUSAS POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A MAN WANTED IN CONNECTION TO A FATAL STABBING THAT HAPPENED LATE SATURDAY. MARK RIGGINS HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER FOR THE STABBING DEATH OF MARCUS HENRY. POLICE SAY THEY DO NOT KNOW THE WHEREABOUTS OF RIGGINS BUT HE IS CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION THAT CAN LEAD TO HIS ARREST IS URGED TO CALL THE OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THE THREE SUSPECTS IN A DEADLY BARBERSHOP SHOOTING IN LAFAYETTE WERE DENIED BOND. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED OVER THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND AT A BARBERSHOP ON LOUISIANA AVENUE, RESULTING IN THE DEATHS OF FORTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD JOHNNY TRAILER JUNIOR AND NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD QUINCY DUHON JUNIOR. A JUDGE SIGNED ORDERS TO HOLD THE THREE SUSPECTS WITHOUT BOND, TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD ABRAM LANDRY, AND SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLDS JEFFREY BROUSSARD AND SHYLAN MOUTON. LANDRY HAS BEEN LINKED TO TWO OTHER MURDERS IN LAFAYETTE AND LAKE CHARLES.
SOME RESIDENTS IN SAINT MARY PARISH ARE STILL RECOVERING FROM HURRICANE FRANCINE. THE CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE CAUSED WIDESPREAD FLOODING AND POWER OUTAGES. FEMA HAS SET UP A DISASTER RECOVERY CENTER IN THE MORGAN CITY MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM WHILE THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BUSINESS RECOVERY CENTER IS ACROSS THE STREET AT THE SAINT MARY PARISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. COREY WILLIAMS OF THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SAYS HE RECOMMENDS RESIDENTS REGISTER WITH FEMA AND APPLY WITH THE S-B-A TO SEE WHAT FEDERAL BENEFITS ARE AVAILABLE.
THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF EASTLAND DRIVE IN LAFAYETTE WILL BE CLOSED TO TRAFFIC THIS MORNING AT EIGHT. IT WILL REOPEN AT THREE TOMORROW AFTEROON. A NEW FIRE STATION IS BEING BUILT AT THE CORNER OF EASTLAND AND CAMELIA BOULEVARD. ATMOS ENERGY WILL BE DOING INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION TODAY AND TOMORROW.
