Family will see redacted video of Trayford Pellerin’s shooting, no timeline set
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Leslie Turk
A founding editor of both The Independent and ABiz and senior editor at The Times of Acadiana in the 1990s, Leslie Turk is an award-winning investigative reporter who has worked in the newspaper business in Lafayette for more than three decades. In 2007 and again in 2017 she received the Louisiana Press Association's highest honor, the Freedom of Information Award. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Acadiana Advocate, The Daily Advertiser, Baton Rouge Business Report, Louisiana Illuminator and Gambit. Contact her at (337) 207-4312 or [email protected].
Guillory vetoes City Council ordinance to hire its own attorney
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Judge blocks release of Pellerin body cam videos
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Demanding more transparency, Trayford Pellerin’s family releases independent autopsy challenging details of official story
After police shot 10 bullets into Trayford Pellerin, they handcuffed him, claims the attorney representing Pellerin’s family. Citing an independent autopsy, the attorney challenges the official account of the events leading up Pellerin’s killing and continues to call for authorities to release body cam footage and other documentary evidence that could clarify what happened.
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Trayford Pellerin’s family will meet with Guillory Friday
Mayor-President Josh Guillory, who waited days to express condolences to the family of the 31-year-old Black man killed in a spray of gunfire by Lafayette police officers on Aug. 21, will meet with the family Friday.
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A bruised Lafayette well-positioned to help its western neighbors
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Judge temporarily blocks suspension of Lafayette police officer
A district court judge today issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Lafayette Police Department’s effort to discipline a veteran K-9 officer for social media activity the officer claims was done in his capacity as president of the local police union.
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Next stop for LUS/Fiber debacle: D.A. Stutes, Public Service Commission
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Auditor’s report details broad effort to prop up LUS Fiber, implicating others beyond Huval
Reaching conclusions already voiced by the Guillory administration and its predecessor, a long-awaited forensic investigative report on suspect transactions between LUS and Fiber accuses former Director Terry Huval of flouting state law to inflate Fiber’s revenue by millions of dollars.
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M-P Guillory moves to reopen search for new Lafayette police chief
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Interim parks director Wittenberg leaves for Carencro parks job
The gist: Frank Wittenberg, who took over Lafayette’s Parks & Recreation Department in early June after longtime director Gerald Boudreaux was pushed out, retired today from the department and accepted a position as director of Carencro’s Parks & Recreation Commission.
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Said to be ‘deleted’ in a cover-up, former LUS director’s emails were never missing
Walking back an allegation central to the lingering scandal around LUS, Lafayette’s city-parish attorney admitted in the wee hours of Tuesday night’s council meeting that thousands of former LUS Director Terry Huval’s emails were never missing. The purportedly missing emails were a key factor in the Guillory administration’s request for a criminal investigation into LUS.
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