Update (8/19/15 8:50 a.m.)
The second suspect in the shooting, Keri Bruno, Jr. (18) of Lafayette, has been arrested late Tuesday night. He is charged with second degree robbery.
Update (8/18/15 4:40 p.m.)
Dustin Francis (25) of Lafayette, has been arrested for second degree robbery by authorities with Lafayette Police Department. A warrant for Keri Bruno, Jr. (18) of Lafayette has been obtained by Lafayette Police. Francis and Bruno were alleged to have robbed the victim by beating him and knocking him unconscious in the 100 block of East Gloria Switch Road.
Lafayette Detectives are asking anyone with information regarding Keri Bruno, Jr.’s location to contact Lafayette Police or Crime Stoppers at 232-TIPS.
By KLFY Brheanna Berry (8/17/15 10:30 p.m.):A brutal beating and robbery was all caught on video surveillance. A victim was attacked at a local gas station Friday night by two men who beat him several times even using a gas pump as one of the weapons. Now, the victim is saying his girlfriend set him up and she’s saying she had nothing to do with it.The incident happened at the Chevron gas station on Gloria Switch Road. Kirk Kleisner owns the store. He had just installed the cameras, and caught it all on video. “It was a horrible beating and we’ve never had trouble at that store before.”On Monday, Kleisner had the footage put on a hard drive for the Lafayette Police Department to help identify the suspects, but the story doesn’t stop there. Raul Ayala, the victim of the beating, says his girlfriend told men to do it and steal his money. “Me no breathing, Me no breathing and the people say they grab my wallet and run.”Ayala says he had just bought cigarettes at the gas station and sat down outside to smoke. That’s when two men jumped him, putting him in a choke hold and ripping off his shirt. He has several broken bones in his face, a fractured tooth and a concussion. He says his girlfriend Candy Supuis threatened to have men jump him, and steal his money. Her story is very different.Dupuis says, “No nothing, seven years we’ve been together.”Dupuis says she got a call from paramedics on Friday night saying her boyfriend was hurt. She says she was in shock, and she rushed to be by his side. Ayala says Saturday morning after being released from the hospital, a woman knocked on their door and told him that Dupuis had told her boyfriend to steal his money. That’s when he left the house for fear of his safety. Dupuis says she had no idea why he left their home. “He was getting in the truck, and I ain’t heard from him since. The cops came to get his belongings out of the house and that was the last time I talked to him.”
Ayala hasn’t had contact with Dupuis since Saturday morning.
Police are currently looking for two men who beat and robbed another man at a gas station on Friday night.
The incident happened around 9:20 p.m. in the 100 block of East Gloria Switch Road.
Nicole Benoit, a spokesperson for the Lafayette Police Department, says the victim noticed the suspects were following him, so he put himself in front of the gas station’s surveillance cameras.
The two suspects demanded money from him and then hit the man repeatedly in his face and body.
Benoit says the two suspects removed an undisclosed amount of money out of the victim’s pocket and then ran away.
Investigators describe the first suspect as, “a thin black male with short hair, wearing a blue shirt with black pants.”
The second suspect is described as “a heavy set black male with short hair, wearing a black shirt with blue shorts.
Video of the incident is featured below. Anyone with any information about the suspects is asked to call Lafayette Police or Crime Stoppers at (337) 232-TIPS.
