A six-year-old was fatally shot around 8:00 pm last night in Raceland. Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office Captain Brennan Matherne says the boy and his brother were playing with loaded gun when it went off. He says children should never be left unsupervised in a home with a gun…:

CUT 13(10)      “…to them.”

The victim is identified at 6-year-old D.J. Michel Jr. He was a first-grader at Lockport Lower Elementary.

An East Baton Rouge grand jury indicts a 17-year-old with first and third-degree rape in the Madison Brooks case. Authorities allege four males were involved in raping the 19-year-old LSU student before she died last month. Legal analyst Franz Borghardt says a first-degree rape conviction carries a life sentence…:

CUT 03(11)      “…set of facts.”

Attorneys for the men charged say the sex with Brooks the night she died was consensual.

While we all enjoy near-record high heat for late February, the rest of the country is getting a huge winter storm. However, State Climatologist Barry Keim says we’ll continue to see moderate weather for a while…:

CUT 11(10)      “…to Louisiana.”

The D.A. in Orleans Parish says he won’t prosecute 15 people arrested for illegally carrying a gun during Mardi Gras. That’s has gotten some folks up-in-arms themselves. Metropolitan Crime Commission president Rafael Goyeneche says it creates a bigger problem…:

CUT 08(09)      “…selective prosecution.”

D.A Jason Williams office says, absent of probable cause, they thought it was best to confiscate the guns and move on…but some of the cases will be re-screened now that Carnival is over.