A now 75-year-old Louisiana man who has spent about 58 years of his life in prison for the shooting death of an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy when he was 17 was granted parole today by the Louisiana Parole Board. Kerry Myers, Deputy Director of the Louisiana Parole Project, says the release of Henry Montgomery, follows a 2012 Supreme Court ruling that mandatory life sentencing without parole for juveniles was cruel and unusual punishment since the brain isn’t fully developed until your 26 or 27 years old. He says Montgomery’s case opened the door for many other such cases involving juveniles to be reviewed.
Cut 10 (09) “…an automatic release.”
Police in Abbeville has arrested a teen in connection with the shooting of another teen as he was getting off a school bus Tuesday afternoon. Police are not releasing any other information at this time on the arrest. The shooting victim reportedly spent hours in surgery as a result of the shooting that happened near Schlesinger and Maude Streets.
Drivers in Louisiana won’t be getting a break anytime soon on the cost of getting from here to there. Tim Waldenback, co-founder of Zutobi, an online driver’s education platform, says in a report just issued that insurance premiums will help keep the state as the most expensive in the nation to operate a vehicle in 2031. He sees no indication that fuel costs will reverse course significantly over the next decade, keeping the state on track for wallet-draining prices at the pump, more so than any other state in the U.S.
The search continues for 36-year-old Michelle Smith who is accused of biting a large portion of a policeman’s ear off. Houma Police Lieutenant Travis Theriot says the officer was injured after responding to a fight among a group of women at Joni B’s Bar in Houma…
cut 14 (08) “…we’re hopeful”
Once Smith is arrested, she’ll be charged with second-degree battery.