UPDATE:
Eunice Police Chief Randy Fontenot says that a 14-year-old suspected in a shooting at a graduation party turned himself in at the St. Landry Parish Sheriff s Office. Fontenot says the teen will be brought back to Eunice.
ORIGINAL:
EUNICE, La. (AP) Authorities say that someone opened fire at a graduation party in Eunice, killing one man and wounding another.
Our news partners at KATC report that the shooting happened early Sunday morning. Police say the suspect is a 14-year-old they described as a runaway who has been missing since March. Police said the motive was not immediately clear.
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Eunice police searching for teen suspect in E. Maple Avenue shooting
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and last updated 2021-02-25 12:35:10-05
Police say they are continuing to search for the suspect of a shooting on E. Maple Avenue in Eunice. The suspect, a 17-year-old is still at large.
Eunice Police Chief Randy Fontenot says the victim has been identified as 20-year-old man from Eunice. He has undergone surgery for his injuries and is listed in stable condition.
The suspect is a 17 year old. Fontenot says that the teen s identity will not be released. Had this incident occurred last year, before the stateâs laws changed, the suspect could have been charged as an adult and his identity made known.
Juvenile Booked In Eunice Drive-By Shooting Case
A sixteen-year-old male has been arrested on a charge of Attempted-First-Degree murder in connection with a drive-by shooting in January that led to another young person being injured. The drive-by shooting happened January 3 at the intersection of Lewis Street and East Maple Avenue.
Eunice Police Chief Randy Fontenot, via press release, is expressing his frustration with the status of juvenile justice in the state of Louisiana.
He says between juvenile justice reform and Covid, the 16-year-old arrested in connection with this drive-by shooting, has many other arrests on his record. He points to this young male s juvenile life sentence in 2019 for his part in two burglaries were guns and ammunition was taken. He says the teen should have been in the juvenile justice system until the age of twenty-one, but because of the reforms, and Covid, he was released early.