9-4-25
A LAKE CHARLES MAN WAS KILLED IN A TWO VEHICLE CRASH IN IBERIA PARISH. FIFTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD WADDELL MULMORE WAS DRIVING A G-M-C SIERRA WEST ON HIGHWAY NINETY NEAR NECO TOWN ROAD WHEN HE WENT OFF THE ROADWAY TO THE RIGHT. AUTHORITIES SAY HE OVERCORRRECTED, CROSSING BOTH WESTBOUND LANES AND THE MEDIAN AND INTO THE EASTBOUND LANES, WHERE HE STRUCK AN ONCOMING NISSAN MURANO. MULMORE, WHO WAS NOT WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD WHILE THE DRIVER OF THE NISSAN, WHO WAS RESTRAINED, SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.
THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD IS PLANNING TO RENOVATE THREE SCHOOLS. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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STATE POLICE ARE CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE THE HIT-AND-RUN DEATH OF FIFTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD BONNIE FONTENOT OF JENNINGS. HER BODY WAS FOUND AUGUST TWENTY-SEVENTH IN THE MEDIAN BETWEEN I-TEN AND THE NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD NEAR IOWA. STATE POLICE BELIEVE THE SUSPECT VEHICLE IS AN S-U-V OR PICKUP TRUCK THAT IS GREEN OR TURQUOISE AND IT LIKELY HAS DAMAGE TO THE FRONT END OR DRIVER’S SIDE. INVESTIGATIVE LEADS SUGGEST THE DRIVER FREQUENTS IOWA OR THE HIGHWAY ONE-SIXTY-FIVE AREAS OF JEFF DAVIS PARISH.
THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH COUNCIL PASSED A RESOLUTION TO HONOR FORMER ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY SHENTELL BROWN. SHE WAS SHOT AND KILLED LAST FEBRUARY BY HER HUSBAND, WHO THEN TURNED THE GUN ON HIMSELF. THE COUNCIL VOTED TO NAME COURTROOM TWO IN THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH COURTHOUSE AFTER BROWN. SAINT MARTIN PARISH PRESIDENT PETE DELCAMBRE SAYS JUDGES AT THE COURTHOUSE APPROACHED THEM WITH THE IDEA OF DEDICATING A COURTROOM TO BROWN.
LAFAYETTE FIREFIGHTERS CAME OUT TO THE JET COFFEE LOCATION OFF OF JOHNSTON STREET BECAUSE OF HEAVY SMOKE EMINATING FROM THE FACILITY. WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED, SMOKE WAS POURING OUT OF THE DOOR AND VENTS. IT TURNED OUT TO COME FROM OVERHEATED BEANS IN A ROASTER THAT HAD BEEN LEFT UNATTENDED. THERE WAS NO FIRE AND NO ONE WAS INJURED.
JENNINGS POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST AFTER A HOUSE WAS HIT WITH GUNFIRE. POLICE CHIEF DANNY SEMMES SAYS SIX TO EIGHT SHOTS WERE FIRED AT THE HOME ON WILBERT D. ROCHELLE AVENUE SOMETIME IN THE OVERNIGHT HOURS YESTERDAY. NO ONE WAS INJURED DESPITE THERE BEING EIGHT PEOPLE IN THE HOME INCLUDING A YOUNG CHILD. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JOMARICK SELLERS OF JENNINGS WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH EIGHT COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER.
TWO RESIDENTS IN MERMENTAU WERE HIT WITH OUTRAGEOUSLY HIGH WATER BILLS, ACCORDING TO A REPORT BY KLFY TV. DEBBIE MARCEAUX’S BILL WAS FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE DOLLARS AND SHOWED THE USE OF THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND GALLONS OF WATER. SHE SAYS TOWN OFFICIALS TOLD HER THERE WAS A WATER LEAK THAT WENT THROUGH HER METER SO SHE WAS RESPONSIBLE. MEANWHILE ABBRIGAIL STEVENS RECEIVED A SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHT DOLLAR BILL COMPARED TO A NORMAL BILL OF ONE HUNDRED SIXTY DOLLARS, AND SHE SAYS HER FIANCEE, A FORMER PLUMBER, FOUND NO LEAKS.
VILLE PLATTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A FATAL SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED SATURDAY EVENING ON NORTH REED STREET. POLICE FOUND A TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD MAN WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND WHO WAS LATER PRONOUNCED DEAD. POLICE CHIEF A. PERRY THOMAS SAYS THEY HAVE NOT YET RELEASED HIS NAME. HE SAYS THEY BELIEVE THEY KNOW WHO SHOT THE MAN BUT THEY ARE NOT MAKING HIS NAME PUBLIC.
