It was a very tense weekend in Baton Rouge with numerous protests taking place over the police shooting of Alton Sterling. Jeff Palermo has story…
Hammond police are investigating a double homicide. Police were called to a residence just after 1am, and when officers arrived at the scene they found 65-year-old Beverly Thompson and her nephew, 39-year-old Toreo Thompson dead of apparent gunshot wounds. Beverly was found outside the residence, and Toreo was found inside. No other information is available at this time, and the investigation is ongoing.
We’re just ten days away from the qualifying for the US Senate race. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says State Treasurer John Kennedy is the Republican front-runner, as fellow GOP candidates Rob Maness and Congressmen Charles Boustany and John Fleming seek to cut into Kennedy’s lead.
Pinsonat says with less than four months to go before the election, the race should start to heat up soon.
A St. John the Baptist Parish Deputy who was injured in a 2012 shooting will get a new kidney today, courtesy of a brother in blue. St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s deputy Robert Ardeneaux is scheduled to have the surgery today to donate his kidney to Jason Triche. Ardeneaux says he hopes this shows people that police officers are still human.
Triche was injured in s shooting that took the lives of two officers, Jeremy Triche and Brandon Neilson.