The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office is trying to make sense of a murder-suicide in Central that left four people dead, including three brothers. Eric Gill reports…
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Governor Bobby Jindal declared today a statewide Day of Prayer and hosted a rally on the capitol steps to honor law enforcement across Louisiana. Emelie Gunn has more…
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The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office is still trying to make sense of a murder-suicide in Central that left four people dead, including three brothers. Spokesperson Casey Rayborn Hicks says 60-year-old Rodney Chemin (KEY-men) allegedly shot 57-year-old Joseph Allen, 55-year-old Perry Allen, and 51-year-old Mark Allen before turning the gun on himself. Hicks says the four were watching football at a neighbor’s house when they began arguing about music…
She says the four returned to Chemin’s home and gunshots were heard a short time later. Hicks says a neighbor went to check on the men and found the four of them dead in Chemin’s driveway…
She says detectives are trying to determine if there was any history of violence or mental health issues with the deceased. Hicks says police aren’t releasing many details of this active investigation…
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State Treasurer John Kennedy proposes the implementation of the aggressive “stop, question and frisk” program in the New Orleans area as a way to curb crime in the city. He says the policy is perfectly legal and allows police officers to frisk a person for a weapon without probable cause…:
Kennedy says this same plan was used in New York and Chicago and it works. He says people aren’t going to visit, move to or invest in a city where they don’t feel safe…:
Kennedy says, sadly, the fasting growing industry in New Orleans is crime and the first responsibility of government is to protect people. He says he realizes this is a controversial plan, but we should be empowering our police officers and not undermining them…:
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Many Police says a heated argument over video games sent one man to the hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound. Spokesperson Dean Lambert says 32-year-old Patrick Carhee became angry with 21-year-old Edward Glynn and slapped him. He says Glynn then punched Carhee and the situation escalated with Carhee unsuccessfully trying to hit Glynn with a hammer…
Lambert says Carhee stabbed Glynn in the arm with a kitchen knife. He says, apparently, Carhee wasn’t quite finished…
Carhee then grabbed a handgun and shot Glynn in the thumb. Lambert says the victim was treated at a local hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. He says Carhee is facing some serious charges in this ongoing investigation… (Carhee is charged with multiple offenses, including attempted second degree murder.)
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Governor Bobby Jindal made today a statewide Day of Prayer to honor law enforcement officers in Louisiana who lost their lives in the line of duty. So far in 2015, Louisiana has lost nine police officers, making us the number two state in the country for law enforcement deaths. Jindal spoke at a prayer rally on the steps of the state capitol today….
Jindal says we often take the sacrifices and commitment of law enforcement officers for granted. He gives thanks not only to police, but the families of the officers who worry each day if their loved ones will come home.
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State Police Col. Mike Edmonson says law enforcement risk their lives and run toward danger, not away from it. He says our prayers shouldn’t end here for those who lost their lives but continue to respect these officers by the way we live our lives.
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