homicide

A tragic end to the search for a missing woman.

New Iberia Mayor Freddie DeCourt talks about the number of unsolved homicides.

One person is dead and another is injured following an early afternoon shooting on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, in Lafayette.

The Lafayette Police Department responded at 8:42 pm on Monday, June 26 to a report of a stabbing in progress.

The victims have been identified as Denzel Smith, 21, of Lafayette, and Codie Laday, 22, of Lafayette.

LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL News) - On Friday, Lafayette Police answered a phone call from the Harrison County Sheriff's Office in Mississippi that may lead to justice for a murdered man. According to a press release from Lafayette PD, the sheriff's office had a 40-year-old man in their custody for unrelated crimes - identified as Justin Lee Webber...

It's been almost four years since the murder of Timothy Breaux, and law enforcement needs help solving the case.

One person died following a shooting late Monday afternoon in the 200 block of Sophie Street in Lafayette.

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.

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.