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3-Year-Old Louisiana Boy Dead After Shooting Himself in the Face

An absolutely horrific incident happened in Hammond, Louisiana on Wednesday afternoon in which a 3-year-old died following a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face.
Shortly after 1:00 pm, a 911 call reported the incident at a home on Red Fox Drive in Hammond. It was reported that the boy had gotten a hold of a gun and accidentally shot himself in the face.
A parent immediately jumped in and attempted life-saving measures, which the first responders continued upon arrival, but sadly, the child could not be saved.
It is not immediately clear how the toddler got a hold of the gun.
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While the investigation remains ongoing, Sheriff Gerald Sticker is asking the public to join him in prayer for the family.
Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Deputies
He also reminds the public about the importance of gun safety. TPSO advises to always secure your firearms in a location not easily accessible to children.
The Sheriff also asks you to consider storing firearms in lock boxes and/or gun safes as additional safety measures. And finally, consider obtaining trigger locks for all weapons.
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New noninvasive heart surgery saves New Orleans twins. They graduated Kindergarten in May.

Ashley Lane gave birth in July of 2019 to twins 17 weeks before her due date.
Both boys had patent ductus arteriosus, or PDA, a congenital heart defect where a blood vessel that allows blood to bypass the lungs in the womb, fails to close after birth — along with other health concerns like lung damage.
“With being so premature,” Lane said. “There were so many what-ifs and question marks and things in the air of what would be wrong with them.”
The Metairie family waited three weeks for the holes in their children’s hearts to heal on their own.
They did not.
Then, the family met with Dr. Ivory Crittendon, a pediatric cardiologist and the co-chief of pediatric cardiology at Ochsner Medical Complex in New Orleans.
Crittendon wanted to try a new FDA-approved method and device, the Amplatzer Piccolo Occluder, to close the twins’ hearts using a catheter in the leg.
The Lane family said yes.
“That first day with Dr. Crittendon set the tone for our whole story. We definitely had such a sense of peace,” Lane said. “When your kids are born that young, and everything that you planned was totally out of your control, and you had to learn to let go very, very, very quickly and trust strangers with your most prized possession, it’s very vulnerable.”
One week later, the twins were taken into back-to-back procedures as among of the first patients in Louisiana to receive treatment.
The previous treatment for PDAs was to perform open-heart surgery, where the doctor would create an incision along the side of the body and crack the chest of the child.
“I think there’s been enough data through all the years to prove that open-heart surgery probably wasn’t the best form of PDA closures,” Crittendon said. “Because a lot of kids struggled for a number of reasons afterwards.”
PDAs are more common in premature babies than mature babies, according to Crittendon. The more mature a child is born, the more likely the hole in the blood vessel is to close on its own.
In this new procedure, Crittendon and his team at Ochsner insert a catheter into the leg of an infant as small as 700 grams (the twins were 770g and 817g at the time of the surgery). Then, through the catheter tube, the surgeon places a device that will facilitate tissue to grow around the hole in the heart.
“It starts the natural process of the PDA closing,” Crittendon said. “It basically augments that process and tissues, sort of envelops around the device and closes the PDA on both sides.”
According to the Crittendon, the most impactful part of the noninvasive procedure is that the recovery time is exponentially higher for the very small, vulnerable patients.
“We take out that hollow tube and take out that small IV and just leave a Band-Aid on the leg,” Crittendon said. “And there’s really no real recovery from the procedure, which is the best part.”
The Lane twins’ hearts have since grown over the devices, and, after five years of checkups, they have gotten their approval from Crittendon to wait another three years for their next visit with the doctors. They both graduated kindergarten in May.
According to Lane, the twins are doing every sport they can get their hands on — soccer just ended, and they are looking to pick up baseball this summer.
“We know that there are so many babies out there that are not as fortunate, and families that are not as fortunate to have this procedure,” Lane said. “This is their second time around playing all these sports. They are really getting the hang of it and enjoying their sporting activities and being competitive against each other as twins.”
Treating patients in the future
The team of physicians, nurses and anesthesiologists that performs the new Piccolo procedure is based at Ochsner Children’s Hospital in New Orleans.
While the team has made moves to travel between hospitals within New Orleans to perform the live-saving procedure, they have also transported patients from around the state and Mississippi for treatment.
“That’s something that we’ve been proud of that we’ve been able to do,” Crittendon said. “However, we’ve sort of led the nation on trying to bring the therapy to the babies, rather than transporting them.”
Going forward, the team hopes to expand their ability to perform the procedure to patients outside of New Orleans, to hospitals within the health system across the state.
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Louisiana police arrest third suspect in Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano’s hotel death

Louisiana police have arrested a third suspect in connection with Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano’s hotel room murder.
Manzano, a 27-year-old Kansas City, Missouri-based Telemundo sports reporter, was in New Orleans on assignment to cover Super Bowl LIX. He was found dead with Xanax in his system in his room at the Comfort Suites hotel in Kenner, Louisiana, on the morning of Feb. 5.
Officials said his death was caused by the combined toxic effects of Xanax and alcohol, noting that he had been found “face-down in a pillow with no lividity around his nose and mouth.” Since then, Kenner police have arrested so-called “Bourbon Street Hustler” Danette Colbert, 48, and her accused accomplice, Ricky White, in connection with Manzano’s death,
On Friday, Kenner police also announced the arrest of Christian Anderson, 33, a New Orleans resident, for his alleged involvement in the plot that led to Manzano’s death.
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Ricky White, left, Danette Colbert and Christian Anderson have all been charged in connection with the robbery scheme that led to sports reporter Adan Manzano’s death. (Kenner PD)
Colbert was nicknamed the “Bourbon Street Hustler” on social media due to her lengthy past targeting men in the French Quarter and stealing their money. She is accused of similar crimes in Las Vegas. Authorities believe she, White and Anderson conspired to drug Manzano and then steal his credit cards before authorities found him dead.
Colbert and Manzano “met in the French Quarter, probably in the wee hours of the morning,” Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley previously told Fox News Digital.
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Telemundo reporter Adan Manzano was seen entering the Comfort Suites hotel with theft suspect Danette Colbert just before his death. (Kenner Police Department/ Telemundo)
“They came back to the hotel that was in the city of Kenner about 4:30 a.m. on Feb. 5, at which time we do have surveillance video from the lobby of the hotel showing them going into [Manzano’s] room around that time,” Conley said. “Then [Colbert] came out, ran to the store, came back about 30 minutes later, and within 10 or 15 minutes, she left the room. And he was never seen again on any video other than when he went into the room. So, she was the last one to be with him.”
Detectives found that one of Manzano’s credit cards was missing while processing his hotel room, Conley told reporters during a news conference on Feb. 8. Authorities then obtained a search warrant allowing them to track the locations where the credit card was used after Manzano was found, which led them to Colbert.
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Kenner police described Colbert as a “career criminal.” (Kenner PD)
White is facing various charges, including simple robbery and multiple counts of fraud. He was later charged with murder in connection with Manzano’s death.
Authorities have also obtained an arrest warrant for Anderson for principal to simple robbery, purse snatching, access device fraud, illegal transmission of monetary funds, bank fraud and computer fraud. He is currently detained at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center alongside Colbert and White, Kenner police said.
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Adan Manzano was on assignment at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. (Telemundo Kansas City)
“Evidence gathered through search warrants, text message records, and digital communications revealed that Anderson, along with previously arrested suspects Danette Colbert and Rickey White, played an active role in a coordinated pattern of targeting victims, drugging them, and stealing personal property, including phones and financial account access,” Kenner police said in a Friday press release.
“Detectives discovered that the vehicle used by Danette Colbert on the day of Manzano’s death had been rented by Christian Anderson, and further evidence showed that Anderson provided logistical support, engaged in post-crime communication, and assisted in attempts to financially benefit from the victim’s stolen assets.”
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Records also allegedly show that “Anderson and Colbert communicated extensively following the incident, and that he played a role in the group’s recurring criminal behavior,” Kenner police said.

Adan Manzano covered the Kansas City Chiefs. (Telemundo Kansas City)
Colbert was recently sentenced to serve 25 years in prison for crimes unrelated to Manzano’s death, including theft, computer fraud and illegal transmission of monetary funds stemming from a 2024 case.
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Police are asking anyone with information about Colbert to come forward. Some victims, Conley said, do not speak up, due to the sensitive nature of the suspect’s alleged crimes.
Authorities executed a search warrant at Colbert’s address after identifying her as a potential suspect in connection with Manzano’s death and said they had located a stolen gun that did not appear to be related to Manzano’s death and narcotics.
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City to close problem hotel along Louisiana Friday

The Barcelona Suites off Louisiana seems to be the latest problem property on the city’s radar.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Barcelona Suites off Louisiana seems to be the latest problem property on the city’s radar.
Cops were seen going in and out of rooms on the property around 10 a.m. Thursday morning.
This wouldn’t be the first hotel to run into issues, the city recently closed some hotels off Coors and Illif.
The city’s Planning Department told KOB 4 this was an announced inspection, they posted 24-hour notices on the property Wednesday.
On Thursday morning, Code Enforcement and APD conducted the inspection, ultimately decided to close the hotel by 2 p.m. Friday.
Residents near the Barcelona suites on Louisiana are breathing a sigh of relief.
“There has been so many activities going down the last couple of years, it has just gotten worse and worse. Shootings, stabbings, drug activity all hours of the day,” said Wendy Tafoya, a nearby Resident.
“It’s the best thing ever, I feel a great relief,” said Mickie Johnson, a fellow nearby resident.
Tafoya said all the commotion Thursday morning at the problem hotel was hard to miss. Then an Albuquerque police officer knocked on her door to deliver the news.
“This morning, we noticed that there was a bunch of police and police activity then one of the officers came and told us that what they were doing is they were going to shut that building down because it has become a nuisance,” she said.
We spoke to multiple residents who say their neighborhood association has been trying to get the hotel on the city’s radar, but the work doesn’t stop here.
“My concern is what are they going to do next,” said another resident who did not want to be on camera.
While the hotel is shutting down, they worry that won’t solve the issue of homelessness in the community.
“I have mixed emotions about the motel because I know that it is not kept good. My feeling is they will congregate there, there is no doubt about that. Demolishing it, maybe. Unless there is a good owner who says in writing that they are going to fix it up,” said the resident.
The city said this was a large operation. We are expecting to hear more from the planning department and city leaders Friday afternoon after the hotel closes.
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