A woman is dead in what police in Bossier City are calling a murder-attempted suicide. Sergeant Shawn Poudrier (POO-dree-ur) says a family member called police Sunday afternoon saying that a man was going through a mental health crisis and had harmed his wife and was threatening to harm himself. Poudrier says police made contact with the man.
Cut 13 (07) “…to hurt himself.”
SWAT officers ultimately found the woman dead and the man with a self-inflicted gunshot would to the head. He’s hospitalized and critical. We’re told two officers were also shot in the incident.
An international organization is using this week to spread awareness of the dangers of trespassing on railroad tracks. Nan Arthur, the state coordinator for Operation Lifesaver, says it’s a huge problem in Louisiana.
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Louisiana has made strides in reducing the state’s chronic absenteeism rate among public school students. Chronic absenteeism rose following the COVID pandemic to a high of nearly 25-percent for the 2023-24 school year; but last year, the rate dropped two-percent. Misty Davis, the executive director of attendance strategies at the department of education, says a task force was formed to address absences.
McNeese has stopped a 14-year decline in enrollment in a big way. University President Dr. Wade Rousse (“roose”) says more and more students are choosing to attend McNeese.
Dr. Rousse says what he’s most proud of is the more than 13-percent increase in the size of this year’s freshman class.