homicide

Officers with the Department's Uniformed Patrol Division responded to a crash around 9:30 pm on Tuesday at the intersection of Iberia Street and Ambassador W. Lemelle Drive.

Around 12:57 am on Wednesday, February 22, Lafayette Police responded to a shooting in progress in the 200 block of Verdun Street.

Lafayette Police are searching for a suspect and investigating the scene.

St. Martin Parish Sheriff Becket Breaux announced this afternoon that his office has arrested and booked a 16-year-old male juvenile suspect in connection with a homicide in Breaux Bridge yesterday afternoon.

Covington police have not released much information about the crime.

22-year-old Dante Savoy of Lafayette has been identified as the man who was shot over the weekend. The case is being worked as a homicide as Savoy was found shot multiple times and was unable to be saved.

Both suspects were booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center.

St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz said his office was notified just before 1:30 am that a male subject was dropped off at a local hospital with a gunshot wound. The man later died from his injury.

When officers arrived at the residence, located in the 1500 block of Montagne Street, they found the victim laying on the floor with gunshot wounds inside the home.

The New Orleans Police Department said they found a man dead in his closet on Tuesday after his wife reported him missing on Monday.

New Iberia Police were called out to the scene of a shooting on Wednesday night in the 1000 block of Anderson Street.

St. Martin Parish Sheriff's officials are asking for people with information to come forward.

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith says that a dive team found the bodies of 28-year-old Dustin Hartline and 20-year-old Raegan Elizabeth Day at the East Pearl River Boat Launch near the Mississippi state line.

The suspect took off in the victim's car.

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office says Hamm is wanted in connection with the July 1 shooting death of a Shreveport man

A Lafayette man is dead after a shooting early this morning.

Authorities in Lafayette Parish made two horrible discoveries last night in Carencro and Scott as they found bodies burning in two separate vehicles.

36-year-old Terrell Batiste is behind bars after he allegedly shot to death 32-year-old Dextel George Friday morning.

The woman was found by someone who went to check on her welfare Sunday.

Deputies found a female body in a home in the 400 block of Lagneaux Road. Officials are investigating the case and searching for the suspect, Miles Joseph Guidry.