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stabbed in a fight with four younger girls at a grocery store in Lake Charles, La., in what police described as a “cold” killing captured on video.The incident happened Saturday night around 7:30 p.m. at a grocery store, the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.“There was a fight between several young girls inside the store, at which time a 15-year-old was stabbed,” the sheriff’s office said.

A 14-year-old girl was shot in the back of the head by her neighbour while she and a group of kids played hide and seek in the area and on the neighbour’s property, authorities in Louisiana said Monday.

Booking photo provided by Calcasieu Parish Sheriffs Office shows David Doyle. (Calcasieu Parish Sheriffs Office) STARKS, La. (AP) - A Louisiana man has been charged with aggravated assault and battery after shooting at children who had been playing hide and seek outside his home, striking a 14-year-old girl, officials said.The girl suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head early Sunday, and was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted on social media Monday.Investigators learned that several children were playing hide and seek in the Starks neighborhood and were hiding on the neighbor’s property.David Doyle, 58, told detectives that he got his gun when he saw shadows outside his home and shot at people he saw running away, unknowingly hitting the girl, officials said.It's the latest in a series of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial circumstances.RELATED:Doyle was arrested and charged with aggravated battery, four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm and illegal discharge of a firearm, the sheriff's office said.

DEQUINCY, La. – Hurricane recovery workers from Alabama, Louisiana and Florida are accused in the death of a woman whose body was found after Louisiana firefighters put out a vehicle fire.Morgan Douglas, 23, of Andalusia, Alabama, was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder, and the other two on a charge of accessory after the fact to murder, the Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office said in a news release Wednesday.Douglas, Dixon Fife, 24, of Lake Charles, and Michael Dean Roberts, 43, of Jacksonville, Florida, also face charges of arson, conspiracy and obstructing justice.All three remained in the Calcasieu Parish jail on Friday, online records indicated.

NEW ORLEANS – The Latest on Hurricane Delta (all times CDT):7:10 a.m.LAKE CHARLES, La. — A Louisiana parish heavily hit by Hurricane Delta is experiencing rising waters from heavy rain.Sheriff Tony Mancuso of Calcasieu Parish told KPLC-TV early Saturday that vehicles were overturned on Interstate-10 westbound and said area residents who evacuated should not be in a rush to return.He said the situation remains “dangerous.”Still, he said anyone who cannot afford to be gone for more than several days can head back, but with caution.

A file image dated Feb. 13, 2013 shows a police car at night.

The South’s Defenders Monument is pictured after Hurricane Laura ripped through Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Aug. 27, 2020.

Residents wait to board a bus as residents evacuate ahead of Hurricane Laura at the Island Community Center on August 25, 2020 in Galveston, Texas.