The grieving continues for a Westwego police officer who was fatally shot after he stopped to provide assistance to a woman who was involved in a car crash. Twenty-six-year-old Michael Louviere leaves a wife and two small children behind. Westwego Police Chief Dwayne Munch Senior…
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Authorities say Louviere and the woman he provided aid for, 32-year-old Simone Veal, were both fatally shot by 32-year-old Slyvester Holt. State Police say Holt shot himself ending a long standoff on the Crescent City Connection Bridge. He’s in critical condition.

In Webster Parish, Springhill Police Chief Will Lynd tells KTBS a Springhill police cruiser struck a pedestrian last night. The pedestrian was airlifted to an area hospital. No other details at this time.

Twenty-three federal inmates from Louisiana had their federal drug sentences reduced in an act peformed by Barack Obama in his final hours as President. Three of the individuals were serving a life sentence. LSU New Orleans Public Health Criminologist Peter Scharf says there’s been a push to stop issuing life-sentences for non-violent drug offenders, but the public still deserves an explantion on these commutations…
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Twenty-year-old Antonious Terrelle Cawthorne of Shreveport will spend the next 25 years of his life in prison for the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old during an Easter weekend gathering at a park. Cawthorne pleaded guilty to manslaughter to the shooting that occurred in April of 2015.

Another warm day is expected and we could see severe weather, especially in north Louisiana. Hail, torandoes and damaging winds are all possible.