A Rapides Parish jury found 46-year-old David Anthony Burns guilty of the murder 19-year-old Courtney Coco who was found in 2004 in Texas. Authorities say she was killed in Alexandria. Rapides District Attorney Phillip Terrell says Burns and Coco were in a relationship and even though Burns was questioned numerous times right after the crime he never confessed to law enforcement.
Burns is facing a mandatory life sentence on the second-degree murder conviction and will be sentenced November 28th.
A private funeral service for rock n roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis will be held Saturday in his hometown of Ferriday. Services will be at 11 AM at Young’s Funeral Home and it will be live-streamed on Lewis’ Facebook page. A celebration of life is also scheduled for 1 PM Saturday at the Arcade Theater in Ferriday. Lewis died Friday at the age of 87.
Congressman Troy Carter says a Wind Energy Zone Designation in the gulf offshore from Louisiana is significant. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has finalized two Wind Energy Areas in the Gulf and one is off the coast of Lake Charles.
The other zone is located off the coast of Galveston.
State Police released more details today on Sunday’s fatal police shooting in Hammond. Trooper William Huggins says Tangipahoa Sheriff deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call and shortly after they arrived 27-year-old Randall Bass barricaded himself in a vehicle and told officers he had an explosive device, hours later Bass got out of the car with a gun and an explosive, shots were fired, and he died at the scene.