Four children and two adults are dead following a murder-suicide at the Parkview Apartments in Monroe. Interim Police Chief Reggie Brown identified the shooter as 30-year old Brittany Tucker. Brown says the second adult victim, 20-year Antiesha Logwood, was shot in the parking lot outside of Tucker’s apartment before Tucker took the lives of her four children and then her own.
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The child victims’ ages ranged from 6 months to 12 years. Brown says Tucker had a history of mental illness.
Iconic French Quarter bars are set to reopen at 25 percent capacity today as New Orleans enters Phase Two. The COVID shutdown has been devastating to service industry employees, but this Bourbon Street pro says reopening establishments at a quarter capacity does them no favors…
Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy says the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis Police Officers should not have occurred, but calls defunding police a stupid idea. Cassidy says the focus should be on police reform and allocating more dollars towards mental health programs so that officers have fewer encounters with mentally ill individuals. But he admits this is not an overnight solution…
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Senate Democrats have proposed a National Police Misconduct Registry as a way to prevent problematic officers from getting hired at another police force.
A long-standing Mardi Gras tradition is being canceled in 2021 due to COVID-19. Senior Lieutenant with Mystick Krewe of Louisianians Tyron Picard says the Washington DC Mardi Gras will not be taking place next January. More than 2,000 people from Louisiana attend the four-day event in the nation’s capital. Picard says the 76-year event has only seen cancellations three other times.
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