Yet another threat is made against a high school in Rapides Parish. This one was posted online last night against Tioga High School. The Sheriff’s Office has extra patrols on hand. This follows threats made against Pineville, Peabody Magnet and Alexandria Senior high schools. Rapides Parish school board member Willard McCall says these threats are no jokes – they all waste valuable law enforcement resources.
A juvenile has been arrested in connection with the threat against Pineville High School.
U-L Lafayette says this year’s freshman class is its biggest ever at more than 32-hundred. Dr. DeWayne Bowie, the vice president for enrollment management, says the school prides itself in keeping class sizes down to a personal level.
Governor Landry makes a formal request to the Pentagon for the federal government to pay for the deployment of one-thousand Louisiana National Guard Troops, who would assist local law enforcement in fighting crime. Landry appeared on Fox News last night; he says when he took office last year, there was a decline in violent crime in New Orleans, but recently there’s been an uptick…
Landry says the state is also seeing elevated crime rates in Shreveport and Baton Rouge.
The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office says it made an arrest ten minutes after a 20-year-old man killed a 21-year-old man execution style, and then put the body in a trunk. Sheriff Mike Tregre (“traig”) says Tyler Bourgeois and Tylen Anderson got into a heated argument as they were driving around Saturday night.