Parker Coley plays for the Baton Rouge Rougarou in the Texas Collegiate League (Photo: Liam Adamson).
HAMMOND, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana University baseball team has eight student-athletes honing their skills, playing for a collegiate summer league team.
Senior catcher Bailyn Sorensen is spending the summer in Canada, playing for the Saskatoon Berries of the Western Canada Baseball League.
Three players are in Florida. Sophomore right-hander Kaleb Howell (Delray Beach Lightning) and redshirt freshman infielder Dom Letort (Boca Beach Boys) are playing in the South Florida Collegiate League, while junior outfielder Dane Watts is with the Jupiter Waves in the League of the Palm Beaches.
Four Lions are spending their summer closer to home in the Texas Collegiate League. Senior outfielder Parker Coley, senior catcher Michael Curry and sophomore infielder Peyton Woods are all with the Baton Rouge Rougarou while redshirt sophomore right-hander Jimmie Johnson is with the Acadiana Cane Cutters.
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Johnson and Woods are slated to join their respective teams in July.
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – The Baton Rouge Police Department confirmed two people are in critical condition and multiple others have been hurt following a shooting at the Mall of Louisiana.
The shooting is believed to have happened near the food court.
Paramedics have been called to the scene. They are setting up a triage near JC Penney.
Police are looking for one to two shooters.
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Right now, they are clearing out the drive to get in and out of the mall for emergency responders only.
Gov. Jeff Landry released a statement:
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DESTIN, Fla. — A North Carolina man allegedly headed to do a mass shooting at a large Louisiana festival was arrested in Okaloosa County Wednesday evening.
Federal authorities contacted the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office in regards to the man. The department was told the man would be in the area.
The man’s name has not been shared by authorities.
Deputies found the man at a Destin Hotel. They took him into custody as a “fugitive from justice.”
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The man will be extradited to Louisiana to face state charges, deputies say.
The mother of three of the eight children massacred by deranged Army veteran dad Shamar Elkins in Louisiana still has a bullet lodged in her head and is struggling with her memory — sometimes believing her kids are still alive, according to a relative.
Christina Snow, the girlfriend of 31-year-old Shamar Elkins, was shot in the face early Sunday when the former National Guardsman went on a shooting rampage at two nearby homes in Shreveport.
Three of Snow’s children she shared with Elkins — Braylon Snow, 5, Khedarrion Snow, 6, and Sariahh Snow, 11 — were killed in their home.
Christina Snow (right) was shot in the face early Sunday by her 31-year-old boyfriend Shamar Elkins. Facebook/Christina SnowThree of Snow’s children she shared with Elkins — Braylon Snow, 5, Khedarrion Snow, 6, and Sariahh Snow, 11 — were killed in their home by their deranged Army veteran father. Facebook/Christina Snow
Elkins fired a bullet through Snow’s nose which is lodged in her head, and doctors aren’t ready to risk surgery, according to her cousin Jamarckus Snow.
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The mom is now dealing with heartbreaking memory loss about the fate of her kids.
“One day, she’ll remember they’re dead. I heard yesterday she woke up and was like, ‘I got to get my kids ready for school.’ She’ll lose memory of what happened,” he told NBC News.
“One day, she’ll know, and the next day, she’s thinking her kids is still there.”
Follow the latest updates on the Louisiana father who killed 8 children in Shreveport shooting:
Elkins fatally shot his seven children — the three he shared with Snow and his four daughters with his wife, Shaneiqua Pugh: Jayla Elkins, 3, Shayla Elkins, 5, Kayla Pugh, 6, and Layla Pugh, 7.
He also killed Mar’Kaydon Pugh, 10, the son of his wife’s sister, who was staying at their house.
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Elkins’ rifle used to gun down the eight children. DOJ
The vet turned his gun on Pugh and Snow, too, severely wounding both women, who are still in the hospital.
Elkins shot himself in the driveway of his former military mentor as law enforcement closed in.
The motive for the shooting remains unclear, but Elkins was suffering from mental health issues and was scheduled to appear in court on Monday after Pugh asked him for a divorce.
