A Chicago woman was killed and three others injured in a Sunday morning shooting on Bourbon Street and New Orleans Police are looking for the suspected shooter seen on surveillance video wearing a gray and black hoodie. He is seen with another man and two women at the time of the shooting around 2 a.m. The New Orleans Police Department says a fight escalated leading to a “shootout” but the cause of the shooting remains under investigation. The woman who died was an innocent bystander in town celebrating her 33rd birthday.
A fugitive for over 20 years, 61-year-old Van Leo has been sentenced to 3 life sentences in prison for the rape and molestation of several children in the 1990’s. Calcasieu Parish D.A. Stephen Dwight says Leo was brought back to Louisiana from Iowa. He says he thought he got away with it.
Cut 9 (05) “…anything like that.”
Van Leo owned a restaurant in Sulphur and Dwight says the victims, ages 4 years old to 12, were family members or friends of his family.
Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple supports a change in the hurricane rating system. He says a proposed new system would better assist governments decide when to issue evacuation orders. It would have given different ratings to notable storms of the past that were based solely on windspeed.
Cut 6 (09) “…these other variables.”
The proposed new scale would include windspeed, storm surge, and rainfall for six overall Categories.
LSU Health Shreveport is awarded a 7.5-million-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to launch a new research center. Dr. Oren Rom, the senior associate dean
teach biotechnology and molecular biology, in the field of metabolic research to combat diseases like obesity, diabetes and liver disease. He says, especially in Louisiana, research into combatting those diseases is important.