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The mother of 26-year-old Telvis Benjamin, who was shot to death in 2020, said she waited two years before Lafayette police made two arrests in her son's murder.
Two Lafayette men were indicted for second-degree murder in the 2020 death of Telvis Benjamin.
A Lafayette Parish grand jury has handed up murder indictments against eight people in five deaths.
Lafayette homicides in 2020: Who was arrested, where are the cases Ashley White, Lafayette Daily Advertiser Lafayette Parish law enforcement agencies investigated at least 20 homicides in 2020 with 15 of those homicides occurring in Lafayette, according to reports from the Daily Advertiser. That's an increase from 18 reported homicides in the parish in 2019 and 14 in 2018. Here is a look at the deaths being investigated as homicides in 2020: © Ashley White/Advertiser Lafayette Police detectives use cones to mark shell casings from a gun in a parking lot at Moore P...