Search for Marksville escapee extends to Lake Charles

Victim's family questions notification; newspaper seeks officials' response The search for an inmate who escaped from Detention Center 1 has extended to Lake Charles, where deputies found an unoccupied truck believed connected to him. Artavien Lowayne Darnell Green, 20, of Lake Charles, escaped at approximately 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, according to the Avoyelles Parish Sheriff’s Office. Calcasieu Parish deputies located the truck near Third Avenue and Third Street on Nov. 8. Green was serving a nine-year sentence following a guilty plea in connection with a 2023 Halloween party shooting that wounded six teenagers, according to KPLC. The latest public reporting reviewed by the newspaper Nov. 10 described an ongoing search. His apprehension had not been independently confirmed. Meanwhile, the family of shooting victim Dereka Bell is questioning how victims were notified of the escape. In a Nov. 9 KPLC report, her parents, Beulah and T.J.

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