Police bodycam video and a 911 call of a 2023 police-involved shooting that left a 19-month-old girl dead and a Lafayette Police officer partially paralyzed will be admitted into evidence in a trial that begins Tuesday.
Jury selection is expected to begin Tuesday morning in the case of John Nicholas, 33, who was charged with one count of second-degree murder and five counts of attempted first-degree murder in connection with the August 2023 incident.
What supposedly started as a domestic disturbance between two women, Diamond Lee and Jowanna Washington, in the early morning hours of Aug. 5, 2023, ended with Kaci Cyprian, 19 months old, dead from a gunshot wound to the head; her brother, Kaisyn Cyprian, wounded; Officer Hali Bradford shot and partially paralyzed; Mary Prejean, Nicholas’ aunt, shot three times and permanently disabled; and at least one other officer injured…