Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie says 37-year-old Alton Sterling was armed when he was shot by police officers outside a convenience store, but they still have questions on how this tragedy occurred. Dabadie offered the media the information about the shooting they have at this time. He says someone called 911 saying that a black man selling CDs threatened them with a gun.
The mother of Sterling’s son, Quinyetta McMillian, also spoke a press conference today. Sterling’s oldest son, 15-year-old Cameron, became emotional watching his mother speak. McMillian blames the media for making this harder on her son by showing cell phone footage of the incident.
The names of the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling have been released as Blane Salamoni, who has been on the force for 4 years and Howie Lake, who has been in the department for three years. Governor John Bel Edwards says this is a very serious matter…
Louisiana is set to receive 60-million dollars in federal grants that will benefit significant road projects in the state. The grant will be used to improve and expand I-10 between Lafayette and the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge. And Baton Rouge Congressman Garret Graves says this federal money will allow the state to use dollars to address the bottleneck on I-10 east as you come over the Mississippi River Bridge from West Baton Rouge parish.
Graves says the work on Interstate 110 should begin by 2017