HOUMA, La. (AP) - Authorities say a 60-year-old man shot his daughter's boyfriend with a shotgun during a fight over missing marijuana. The Courier reports that the boyfriend was hit with a .410 gauge shotgun. Several pellets lodged in his heart. They were removed. He is expected to make a... more »
According to the Morgan City Police Department, police arrived to the scene of a shooting that left two victims in wounded.
On December 17, police officers were dispatched to a shooting in the 300 block of Arkansas Street. Officers were advised that two people were shot. The shooter supposedly... more »
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - A 24-year-old Lake Charles man has been arrested in connection with the Monday death of an 18-month-old child. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso tells The American Press Efrem "Jay" Ogwin was booked Wednesday with second-degree murder. Mancuso said officials at W.O. Moss Regional Hospital contacted... more »
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former Playboy Playmate of the Year who appeared in the horror movie "Rosemary's Baby" has been charged with shooting her boyfriend at their Hollywood apartment.
The district attorney's office says 66-year-old Victoria Rathgeb pleaded not guilty to attempted murder on Tuesday. She remains jailed... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An Algiers woman was arrested after police say she shot a teenage boy she caught in her daughter's bedroom. Letischa Collins, 35, was booked with aggravated battery after she shot the 16-year-old boy in the stomach on Monday. The injured boy was taken to a local... more »
MONROE, La. (AP) - Ouachita Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a man over the weekend for allegedly burning his girlfriend with a clothes iron. 33-year-old Allen Robinson of Monroe was booked into the Ouachita Correctional Center early Sunday morning on a charge of attempted second-degree murder. According to an arrest affidavit,... more »
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - A jury has found a 47-year-old Lafayette woman guilty of the April 2009 second-degree murder of her live-in boyfriend. Mary Henderson Trahan was found guilty Wednesday in the April 20 shooting death of 32-year-old George Barbu. Assistant District Attorney Daniel M. Landry III said Trahan shot... more »
Relationship Violence Ends in Arrest
On November 19, 2009, at approximately 7:30 pm, officers with the Lafayette Police Department responded to the 300 block of Lafayette Street regarding a disturbance. The victim, a 52 year old male of Lafayette, advised officers that the suspect, his current girlfriend, followed him... more »