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A man who died after he had an encounter with Shreveport fire and police personnel in late April has been ruled to have perished from febrile delirium, the Caddo Parish Coroner’s Office has determined. Febrile delirium is an acute and transient confusional state with high fever.

United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Deandray Charles Grant, 30, of Forney, Texas, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr., to seven years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Investigators with the Shreveport Police Department’s Violent Crimes Division have arrested a man in connection with a mid-May murder attempt in west Shreveport.

Shreveport police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect wanted in connection with a theft.

A man was arrested Saturday for attempted murder.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has scheduled a drawdown of Lake Bistineau in Webster, Bossier and Bienville parishes for the purpose of reducing further expansion of giant salvinia. The drawdown will additionally benefit fisheries production by improving aquatic habitat and reducing the amount of organic matter on the lake bottom.

Shreveport police detectives are asking the public’s help to identify two suspects believed responsible for a business burglary, which occurred in the 2700 block of Lakeshore Drive on June 17.

Shreveport police patrol officers have charged a man with multiple charges stemming from a domestic incident early this morning in west Shreveport.