Baton Rouge faith based leaders community want the Justice Department to look for other potential crimes as they conduct an investigation into whether Alton Sterling’s civil rights were violated when the african-american was shot by two white police officers. Reverend Lee Wesley says other potential crimes include false arrest, aggravated battery and second degree murder…
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Julie Baxter Payer, with the governor’s office, says the US Justice Department is leading the investigation to ensure transparency with the public….
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The governor’s communications director Richard Carbo told the Associated Press that the Justice Department is looking to see whether there were other violations of state and federal law.

Alton Sterling, the man shot by a Baton Rouge Police officer, outside of a conveience store on Tuesday does have a previous criminal history. He was arrested for offenses that include aggravated battery, criminal damage to property, drug possession and carnal knowledge of a juvenile. But Brandon Boutin knew Sterling and says the 37-year-old man was working hard to straighten out his life and make sure everything was on the up and up…
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Monroe Police have charged Quinton Tellis with first-degree murder in the death of a ULM student, who was found dead in her apartment last August. Tellis has been the primary suspect in the case and after a nearly year-long investigation authorities were able to collect enough information. Tellis is also facing capital murder charges in the burning death of a 19-year-old girl in Mississippi.