2-5-24
LAFAYETTE POLICE RESPONDED TO A SHOOTING INCIDENT LATE SUNDAY EVENING. THIS INCIDENT IS NOW BEING INVESTIGATED BY STATE POLICE. DANIELLE DUNCAN REPORTS.
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A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD, WHO ESCAPED FROM THE VERMILLION PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE FRIDAY, IS BACK IN CUSTODY. KIMMY DAUNTAIN JUNIOR ESCAPED WHILE BEING ESCORTED TO A FUNERAL IN FRANKLIN. HIS PARENTS TURNED DAUNTAIN IN TO STATE POLICE TROOP B IN KENNER AT AROUND TEN-THIRTY SUNDAY MORNING. DAUNTAIN WAS BEING HELD ON NUMEROUS CHARGES INCLUDING FIRST-DEGREE MURDER.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY WAS ONE OF THIRTEEN GOVERNORS WHO WENT TO EAGLE PASS, TEXAS SUNDAY TO MEET WITH TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT. AFTER LEARNING WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE, LANDRY SAID THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS ABDICATED ITS RESPONSIBILITY TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS. HE SAYS OPEN BORDERS HAVE ALLOWED DRUGS AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING TO FLOW INTO OUR COMMUNITIES, PUTTING THE WHOLE COUNTRY AT RISK. LANDRY SAYS HE WILL WORK WITH THE LEGISLATIVE LEADERSHIP TO FIND A WAY TO SEND NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO THE SOUTHERN BORDER TO SUPPORT TEXAS IN ENFORCING IMMIGRATION LAWS.
A TEXAS MAN WAS ARRESTED NEAR IOWA FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING. TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD KEVIN RICKS WAS PULLED OVER FOR A TRAFFIC VIOLATION AND AN INVESTIGATION LED TO THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING ARREST. THE U-S ATTORNEY FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA, BRANDON BROWN, SAYS THE STATE HAS TWO MAJOR INTERSTATE CORRIDORS. HE SAYS A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TRAFFICKED ON THE BORDER AND BROUGHT THROUGH LOUISIANA ON THEIR WAY TO THE EAST COAST.
ON THURSDAY, THE YOUNGSVILLE CITY COUNCIL IS EXPECTED TO RAISE TRASH COLLECTION RATES FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW. LAST YEAR, THE COUNCIL RAISED THE RATE THREE DOLLARS TO TWENTY-THREE DOLLARS PER MONTH. IF THE ORDINANCE IS APPROVED, IT WILL GO UP AGAIN TO TWENTY-SEVEN DOLLARS MONTHLY. WASTE MANAGEMENT RECENTLY INCREASED THEIR RATES BY NEARLY FIFTEEN PERCENT DUE TO RISING FUEL COSTS AND THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX.
IN OPELOUSAS, A MAN WAS SHOT IN THE HAND SUNDAY MORNING. POLICE LEARNED ABOUT THE SHOOTING FROM A LOCAL HOSPITAL. THEY FOUND THAT TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD KEENAN CHARLES WAS SHOT DURING AN ALTERCATION, AND IT HAPPENED IN THE FIVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF EAST SOUTH STREET. THIRTY-YEAR-OLD DEXTER BROUSSARD JUNIOR WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MANSLAUGHTER.
CASES OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES IN LOUISIANA HAVE FAR OUTPACED THE NATIONAL RATE. SYPHILIS CASES HAVE RISEN TWENTY-FOUR PERCENT IN THE STATE COMPARED TO A NINE PERCENT NATIONAL INCREASE. PATTY KISSINGER, AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGIST FROM TULANE, CALLED IT AN EPIDEMIC. LOUISIANA RANKS NUMBER ONE IN THE NATION FOR CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS, WHICH HAVE RISEN BY EIGHT PERCENT.
A CEREMONY WAS HELD SATURDAY TO REMEMBER THE FIRST BLACK POLICE OFFICERS IN OPELOUSAS. BERNARD LEWIS, PHILIP STELLY AND JULIUS GUILLORY JOINED THE DEPARTMENT IN THE NINETEEN-FIFTIES, DURING SEGREGATION. FAMILY MEMBERS WERE ON HAND AND TALKED ABOUT THEIR LEGACIES. POLICE CHIEF GRAIG LEBLANC SAYS IT’S IMPORTANT TO HELP NEW GENERATIONS UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF THEIR ROOTS TO GIVE THEM THE PRIDE TO BE ABLE TO GO OUT AND DO GREAT THINGS.
