State Troopers are looking for the driver and vehicle Involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash yesterday around 1:00 p.m. on I-10 north frontage road just east of Highway 165 in Jefferson Davis Parish. The crash claimed the life of pedestrian 53-year-old Bonnie Fontenot of Jennings, who had previously been reported missing. Fontenot died at the scene. Authorities are working to determine the make, model, and driver of the suspect vehicle, and they’re asking anyone with information to contact LSP Troop D at (337) 491-2511. Information can be reported anonymously through the Louisiana State Police online reporting system by visiting File a Report or calling the LSP Fusion Center Hotline at 1-800-434-8007.
We now know how 12-year-old Bryan Vasquez died. New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick announced yesterday that he died from blunt force due to an alligator and subsequently drowned. Bryan was a nonverbal autistic boy who disappeared from his home on August 14th, 12 days before his body was found. Kirkpatrick says they are looking into the circumstances surrounding Bryan’s disappearance.
Twenty years ago, people in New Orleans were caught off-guard by Hurricane Katrina, with forecasters originally predicting it was going to make landfall several hundred miles east. Andrew Greenstein reports technology has evolved since then.
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The 90th annual Shrimp and Petroleum Festival is this weekend in Morgan City. Festival President Charlie Solar Jr. says there will be live music, activities for kids and a shrimp cook off. And admission is free.