CRIME & SAFETY
Editorial: Lacey Fletcher's sad story should prompt us all to look inward
The story of Lacey Ellen Fletcher’s life and death stunned the nation. The East Feliciana woman was found lying on a fetid couch at her parents' home in Slaughter. It emerged that the 36-year-old had probably spent more than half of her life inside that house. The last record of her leaving was for a doctor’s appointment in 2010. Her life was gradually constrained to the width of that couch, where she was allowed to sit in her filth day after day, month after month. Her hair was covered in maggots, she had ulcers all over her body and she weighed only 96 pounds when she died on Jan. 3, 2022.
Coroner responds to reported pedestrian-involved crash
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office responded to a reported crash involving a pedestrian on Thursday morning, March 28. Officials said the incident happened around 6:50 a.m. on Monterrey Drive near Great Smokey Avenue. No other details have been released. This is a...
Former Baton Rouge deputy accused of hitting inmate with metal chair being sued
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A man who was allegedly smacked in the face with a chair while incarcerated at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison is suing the deputy accused of hitting him as well as the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office (EBRSO) exactly one year after the alleged incident.
Former high school coach formally charged for alleged relationship with teen
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Prosecutors in the 19th Judicial District Attorney’s Office have wrapped up their review of the criminal case of Damien Clark and formally charged him with molestation of a juvenile and an indecent behavior with a juvenile charge. According to court records, an arraignment has been set before District Judge Eboni Johnson on April 29.
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