OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY) — Jermaine Doucet, the owner of Fatbelly’s Diner in Opelousas, was honored with a memorial at North City Park days after he, his girlfriend and her child were tragically killed in a fire.
“If you walked into his restaurant, no matter how you went there feeling, you were going to leave uplifted, laughing,” said Melissa Doucet, Jermaine’s older sister. “It wasn’t just a place to eat. A lot of his friends called it a safe place.”
Jermaine, along with Raquel Harris and her nine-year-old daughter Skylar Tapp, died in a fire at Fat Belly’s Diner. The diner was known as a community hub where people gathered not just for food but for camaraderie and support…