A Catahoula Correctional Center Inmate was fatally shot after allegedly faking an illness during transport and attacking two correctional officers. Lt. Jared Sandifer with the Louisiana State Police says it happened just outside of St. Francisville Wednesday morning.
The inmate has been identified as 46-year-old Raymond Huddleston of Baton Rouge. He was being transported to a court hearing.
Police have arrested 34-year-old Foreign National Amanvir (uh man ver) Singh in the shooting death of 36-year-old long-haul truck driver, Gurpreet Singh Judge. The shooting occurred alongside Interstate 20 in Caddo Parish last month and Wednesday night, Singh was arrested in Flowood, Miss where he lives. He faces a second-degree murder charge in what was initially believed to be a road rage incident. Caddo sheriff’s investigators said Singh and Judge knew each other and the shooting was not random road rage. Extradition efforts are pending.
Former Art Teacher, Ralph Cheramie is facing a combined total of over one hundred years in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing a student while he was teaching at a middle school in 2009. It took a jury around an hour to return the guilty verdict. The victim now an adult reported the crime to school officials at the time but little action was taken. Years later she reported directly to law enforcement. The testimony of another of Cheramie’s victim’s was reportedly crucial in showing his pattern and method of grooming young students.
Louisiana tops a tragic list leading the nation on a per capita basis for the number of children who died from being in a hot car. Louisiana Highway Safety Commission spokesperson Greg Fisher says Pediatric Vehicular Homicide can happen quickly in a parked car. He says temperatures can rise 10 to 15 degrees in as little as 15 minutes
Fisher says the best way to prevent these tragedies is for every parent and caregiver to understand that this can happen to anybody.