Homicide

This morning just after midnight, The Lake Charles Police Department responded to 710 Iris Street apartment 206 in reference to a subject bleeding.  Upon arrival officers located  an 18 year old black male deceased.

Armonta DeQuon Hadnot, 18, is wanted by police as one of those responsible for the shooting death of three, at McMillan Park on Wednesday night (March 21). Update 6:00 a.m. :  It is being reported that the Lake Charles Police Department now have the suspect in the triple homicide, Armonta Hadnot, in custody. Update 9:00 AM--Here is a post from the LCPD Facebook page: Armonta Hadnot has been captur

According to KPLC, on Wednesday night (March 20) at around 11:30 p.m., law enforcement agencies responded to a shooting at McMillan Park on Goos Street next to the Sunlight Manor Apartment Complex on Winterhalter Street, in the area of Lake Charles immediately south of Interstate 10.

Dateline NBC just aired a one hour special on the abduction and murder of Mickey Shunick from Lafayette Louisiana. In the show, never before seen video footage was aired of Brandon Scott Lavergne confessing to the murder of Mickey Shunick and what happened that terrible night.  Here is that video.

The case of the missing University of Louisiana Lafayette student Mickey Shunick will be the featured story on NBC's Dateline this Tuesday night January 29th.

In addition to the 1st homicide on Friday November 30th, LCPD issued another press release: Officers were dispatched on December 2, 2012 at 6:34 p.m., to 3214 Louisiana Avenue in reference to a shooting.

26 year old Dustin Pleasant was arrested by officers with the Lake Charles Police Department at 5400 East Broad Street, on 2nd degree murder charges.

Lake Charles Police have arrested 26 year old Justin Pleasant on 2nd degree murder, in connection with a death that happened Friday night in South Lake Charles.

Although details are sketchy at the moment, several news outlets are reporting that a gunman has shot multiple people near the Empire State Building in Manhattan this morning.

Some 90 days after she first went missing, Mickey Shunick finally returned home today after the Lafayette Parish Coroner's office released her body to her family.

Just hours after the news broke that Brandon Lavergne plead guilty for the murders of Mickey Shunick and Lisa Pate, he found himself already in the Louisiana State Prison in Angola.

In probably the only move left to him, Brandon Scott Lavergne pled guilty today to the murders of Michaela "Mickey" Shunick and Lisa Pate.  And, in doing so, he revealed the heartbreaking story of how everything went down on that fateful night back in May when Shunick went missing -- and on another night in 1999 when he killed Lisa.