Louisiana mother charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder
The search for a potential third child ended early last Friday afternoon after the child was found safe in another location.
“This is a tragedy and we ask for prayers for the children and their family,” Shreveport police department Sergeant Angie Wilhite said. According to police, Black, 32, is accused to have thrown two of her kids off of either Cross Lake Bridge or the low bridge at South Lakeshore into Cross Lake.
The lake is over 8,500 acres and supplies water for the city of nearly 200,000 residents.
Law enforcement officials were able to find Black after they linked her to a gray Dodge Caravan with a Texas license plate to the crime, and put out a BOLO (be on the lookout) for her vehicle in the surrounding area. The mother’s vehicle was spotted by a Waskom, Texas police officer, which led to her arrest. No bond had been set for Black.
“Pray for our law enforcement officers that have been out here all day, all morning working on this,” Wilhite said. “Our firefighters, Life Air, our dive teams with the Caddo sheriff’s department, and the police department. It’s been a multi-agency effort. Unfortunately, there’s no happy ending to this, but we do have the suspect in custody. Our detectives are working right now on interviews and recovering more evidence in the case.”
Black’s five-year-old son is expected to make a full recovery.
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