State Police release new video of last December’s fatal crash in Thibodaux that appears to refute any notion that Kyren Lacy was innocent. Late last week, Lacy’s lawyer pointed to close-up video that shows Lacy well behind the deadly head-on crash. Now, LSP has released a wide-angle shot of the incident that clearly shows Lacy driving much faster than the posted 40-mile-an-hour speed limit, passing vehicles on the narrow two-lane L-A Highway 20 in a no-passing zone. A northbound Kia Cadenza swerved into the southbound lane to avoid Lacy’s Dodge Charger and collided head-on with a Kia Sorento, killing 78-year-old Herman Hall. In the video, a State Trooper interviews the female driver of the Kia Cadenza.
Lacy took his own life days before a grand jury was to consider the charges filed against him.
An Iberville Parish deputy was killed and another was injured in a shooting outside the parish courthouse last night. District Attorney Tony Clayton says the deputies were trying to arrest someone when a fight broke out, which culminated in the shooting, during which the suspect was also killed. The deputy who died was Charles Riley. The one who was injured is Brett Stassi Jr., the son of Sheriff Brett Stassi. Clayton says Stassi’s condition is, in his words, “optimistic.”
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says it received 13-hundred applications for the 2025 Black Bear Hunting Lottery. LDWF black bear biologist John Hanks says the 2024 hunt drew 973 applications. He says interest was higher this year, because more of the state is open to bear hunting during a two-week-long season in December.