We now know how 12-year-old Bryan Vasquez died.
Cut 13 (14) “…then subsequently drowned.”
Vasquez was discovered missing on August 14th, and his body was found in a nearby lagoon 12 days later. New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick says she has formerly requested that LDWF eradicate nuisance alligators from that lagoon, and that work started yesterday afternoon.
A six-year-old girl is recovering after being shot in Lafayette over the weekend. Lafayette Police Detective Ken Handy says fortunately, the girl will survive.
Cut 3 (05) “…condition has stabilized.”
Two suspects are under arrest. Daylon Andrus was initially arrested and was booked on a charge of attempted second-degree murder. This morning, Ja Andrea Kentrell Willis was arrested in Beaumont, Texas.
Twenty years ago, people arrived for work on Friday morning, not thinking that Hurricane Katrina was going to upend their lives that Monday. That’s because Katrina’s original track had it making landfall over Pensacola, Florida. During the day, the track greatly shifted west, catching everyone completely off-guard. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says technology has evolved since then — and so has hurricane forecasting.
While parts of the city never recovered, the Superdome was repaired and reopened about a year later. Doug Thornton, who was the general manager of the dome at the time, says Governor Kathleen Blanco was feeling pressure from the public to use federal dollars to rebuild hospitals, schools, roads and bridges.