A memorial service honoring the three fallen Baton Rouge police officers will be held at 2pm today at Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge. Vice President Joe Biden, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Governor John Bel Edwards will speak at the memorial. Casey Rayborn Hicks is with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office. She says this shows that their local, state, and federal counterparts are coming together in this community’s time of need.
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She says they are anticipating a massive turnout for the memorial.

At the Baton Rouge Rotary Club Wednesday, LSU coach Les Miles spoke about the shooter of Montrell Jackson, Matthew Gerald and Brad Garafola:
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Also hit in the ambush attack on officers was Deputy Nicholas Tullier who remains in critical condition.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said the dialogue has to change about shootings involving police. Normand made the statement, after one of his deputies shot 17-year-old Devon Martes on Tuesday night where Martes’ gun misfired when he tried to shoot the deputy after a brief chase. Normand says his deputy, David Dalton, is lucky to be alive…:
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He listed off items on Martes’ rap sheet which include a variety of drug and robbery charges starting when he was 14.

There were no big winners in the already massive Powerball jackpot last night which now grows to an estimated $478 million dollars. It’s the 5th largest Powerball prize of all time, and the 8th biggest in US lottery history. The next drawing will be held on Saturday.