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A new trial date has not been set yet.

A trial is scheduled for the week of June 19.

Police say Westmoreland left the scene, but he was detained shortly after. The man, 48-year-old Donnie Cayer, died despite CPR performed on him almost immediately by an off-duty Rapides Parish Sheriff's deputy and a nurse practitioner. Westmoreland, 60, was arrested on charges of vehicular homicide, hit and run, DWI and limitations on passing bicyclists. He has not been formally charged or indicted, and no court hearings have been scheduled yet. In a letter dated May 12, the 9th JDC's Chief Judge Mary Lauve Doggett asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to appoint an ad hoc judge in the case. West...

A GoFundMe account has been established for the two young sons of a man killed Saturday in a hit-and-run on Horseshoe Drive. Donnie Cayer died on Saturday after being hit by a retired Louisiana State Police trooper, 60-year-old David Brett Westmoreland, who later was charged with first-offense DWI, hit and run and vehicular homicide after his arrest by the Alexandria Police Department. Cayer had been bicycling on the busy two-lane road with one of his sons on a trip to feed geese and ducks that frequent Bayou Robert and a pond that fronts the Tennyson Oaks subdivision. "Donnie was a single...