A busy morning for Bossier City police and sheriff's deputies, as a man armed with a knife threatened to commit suicide by driving his truck into the Red River.
Bossier sheriff's dive team units were on stand-by in case the man followed through with his threat...
The Caddo Sheriff's Office dive team has concluded the search for Kevin Deleon for the day, and he's still not been found. The team will be back out tomorrow morning to try again.
High water on the Red River, caused by recent heavy rains, has prompted the Red River Waterway Commission to close the public boat launches it operates in Caddo and Bossier Parishes.
Crime Scene Investigators have used fingerprints to identify the body pulled from the Red River Tuesday night as that of 22-year-old Glen Bowens, Jr. The Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office says Bowens was originally from California but had been living in Shreveport.
The Red River Waterway Commission has approved a cooperative endeavor agreement with Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, to research and test the university's recently developed endocide method to control and eradicate the spread of giant salvinia.