Lt. Clay Higgins of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s office is receiving national attention for his intimidating Crimestopper videos. Michelle Southern reports…:
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Two LSU students develop a smart phone app that allows people to record and upload videos of police encounters and share it with media outlets. Eric Gill reports…
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The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Vivian teenager accused of stabbing his parents. Authorities say 17-year-old Shane Alexander is charged with two counts of attempted first degree murder. Spokesperson Cindy Chadwick says Shane went into his parents’ bedroom at about 3AM this morning…
Shane’s step-mother, 61-year-old LaDonna Alexander, was stabbed once in the chest and his father, 64-year-old Jerry Alexander, was stabbed in the back and arm. Chadwick says LaDonna was able to drive herself to the hospital…
Jerry was later transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Authorities have yet to release a motive for the crime. Chadwick says, when authorities responded to the call, Shane was still at the house…
CUT 5 (05) “first degree murder”
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The spokesman for the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s office is getting national attention for his intimidating Crimestopper videos created for a Lafayette news station. Lt. Clay Higgins is called the “Cajun John Wayne” for his stern demeanor when talking to perpetrators responsible for these unsolved crimes. He says he never expected all this…:
Higgins says the Crimestopper videos were originally scripted but he decided he wanted to use his own words and feelings when talking about these criminal acts. He says he uses a certain way to communicate that if there’s a warrant out for your arrest, you should turn yourself in…:
CUT 7 (08) “hang their hat on”
Known for the phrase, “Have your affairs in order,” Higgins says it was directed at whomever stole a generator from the home of a man who is confined to a wheelchair. He says he wanted to send a strong, stern message to the person who violated the man’s privacy…:
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Two LSU students have developed a smart phone app that allows people to record and upload videos of police encounters and share it with media outlets. The Police Officer Watchdog Events Reporter, or POWER, app was developed by Wilborn Nobles and Elbis Bolton. Bolton says this app can be used to spread both negative and positive interactions with police…
With cellphone cameras becoming more widespread, more and more incidents of police, both good and bad, are being caught on camera. This app would become a hub to share those videos with newsrooms nationwide. Bolton says the inspiration for this app came from watching events unfold in Ferguson, Missouri last year…
The POWER App is currently available for download for Android devices. Bolton says they are working on an iPhone version. Nobles says this app can be a way to more efficiently get cellphone videos in the hands of journalists…
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State Police say two people are dead after a high speed crash this weekend in St. Tammany Parish that happened after a traffic stop. Trooper Dustin Dwight says an officer pulled over a vehicle speeding in excess of 100 miles per hour in Covington. Dwight says while the trooper was conducting a field sobriety test on the 14-year-old driver of the vehicle, something else happened…
cut 12 (08) “the traffic stop”
Dwight says 21-year-old Brandon Bigner of Franklinton jumped into the driver’s seat of the car and fled the traffic stop with 14-year-old Sloan McDow of Folsom in the back seat. He says after the trooper secured the juvenile driver in his squad car, the officer left the scene in the direction the car had fled…
cut 13 (10) “from him, earlier”
Dwight says the officer, who was not in pursuit of the vehicle, came upon the crash scene as he rounded a curve. He says alcohol use is suspected by Bigner. Dwight says this crash was extremely unfortunate… (McDow was pronounced dead at the scene and Bigner died today from his injuries.)
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