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 in a canal. New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick has requested that the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries eradicate nuisance alligators.
Kirkpatrick says the coroner was unable to determine if the alligator attack occurred the same day Bryan went missing.
Two men have been arrested in the shooting of a six-year-old girl in Lafayette. Lafayette Police Detective Ken Handy says the first suspect arrested…
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This morning, a second suspect, Ja Andrea Kentrell Willis, was arrested in Beaumont, Texas; he’s awaiting extradition back to Lafayette. A motive for the shooting has not been released and the six-year-old’s condition has stabilized.
Twenty years ago today, thousands of people entered the Superdome to take shelter from Hurricane Katrina, before it destroyed thousands of homes and businesses and took numerous lives. The next morning on August 29th, Katrina’s fierce winds peeled off sections of the Superdome roof. Doug Thornton was the general manager of the Dome at the time.
Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser was a private citizen who rode out Hurricane Katrina at his home in Plaquemines Parish. Nungesser says what he experienced that day are things he will never forget.
Nungesser says he helped rescued 30 people by airboat.