A 25-year-old man has been arrested on multiple charges after he drove is truck into a crowd of people awaiting the Krewe of Endymion parade on Saturday night.
Lafayette police will shut down the intersection of Ambassador Caffery Parkway at Dulles Drive beginning at 1 p.m. this afternoon to allow for the traffic investigation into a drunk driving crash that killed one person at that intersection earlier this week.
In their ongoing effort to reduce impaired driving, Lafayette Police will conduct a sobriety checkpoint somewhere within the city limits Saturday night into early Sunday morning.
Louisiana State Police Troop I spokesperson Trooper Hammons encouraged anyone drinking alcohol to do the responsible thing and designate a driver so that they were not endangering the lives of themselves or others.
In a statement released to members of the press, officials with the Louisiana State Police have provided an update on the case of 18-year Kennedy Renee Isaac of Elton.
Lohse was set to be tried on charges of felon on possession of a firearms. He likely would have faced the charges of vehicular homicide later in the week.
In a more than eleven minute YouTube video published Sunday under the author John Smith, which depicts Wade Lohse somewhere in the woods, apologized for the accident, but he called into question the results of the crash investigation, accusing authorities of performing their calculations incorrectly.