The manhunt continues after an innocent woman is shot to death inside a vehicle at a Hammond gas station early yesterday morning. Police Chief Edwin Bergeron Jr. said while one car was at a gas pump, another car pulled up to an adjacent pump, and two people jumped out with AR-style pistols.
Those shots killed 50-year-old Patricia Sheppard, who was not the intended target of a targeted shooting.
St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith is arrested for allegedly attacking a man at a Madisonville restaurant late last month. The victim is 59-year-old Bobby Couvillon, who’s been one of Smith’s harshest critics. Metropolitan Crime Commission President Rafael Goyeneche says that’s no excuse, however – and getting out of this will be very hard for Smith to do.
Cut 5 (12) “…of what occurred.”
While Governor Landry continues to consider whether to sign the “Streets to Success Act,” advocates for the homeless are speaking out against it. Along with making public camping a misdemeanor, it provides court-supervised programs to connect them to housing, treatment and job services. Louisiana Advocacy Coalition on Homelessness Coordinator Joe Heeren-Mueller says it’s an empty solution.
Cut 8 (08) “…it will provide.”
The New World screwworm has been found in the United States for the first time in nearly 60 years. It’s a flesh-easting parasite that can kill animals including livestock. Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says the deadly bug was found in a calf in Texas, 30 miles north of the Mexican border. Strain says its discovery in the United States has already led to an increase in beef prices.