New Orleans authorities reveal 12-year-old Bryan Vasquez the nonverbal autistic boy who disappeared from his home on August 14th died from blunt force due to an alligator and subsequently drowned. New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick has requested that the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries eradicate nuisance alligators.
An arrest has been made in the ongoing investigation into the shooting of 6-year-old Riley Francis in Lafayette Sunday. 21-year-old Daylon Andrus has been arrested and booked into a Lafayette Parish jail on one count of attempted second-degree murder. Riley is listed in stable condition. She is in a critical care unit in a Baton Rouge hospital.
On this day 20 years ago, New Orleans residents who had no place to go walked into the Superdome to take shelter from approaching Hurricane Katrina. Jeff Palermo has the story.
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LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says predicting where the storms go and how strong they will be has also gotten a lot more precise in the last two decades.