Scottie Hunter
Reporter/Anchor
Baton Rouge, La.
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Scottie Hunter is the anchor for 9News at Noon and the lead investigative reporter. While there he has covered a number of stories that have garnered national attention, including the death investigation of Lyntell Washington, a teacher who's body was found in a sugar cane field several days after she went missing in June 2016. Portions of his coverage were featured on the popular HLN program, Nancy Grace.
Most recently he has covered the ongoing protests surrounding the officer-involved shooting death of Alton Sterling which resulted in unrest across the country and a deep conversation about race-relations and police brutality.
Prior to that, he was a reporter at KPLC-TV in Lake Charles, LA. And a reporter/anchor at WVAS-FM in Montgomery, Alabama. He also previously covered politics for Alabama Public Television and was a reporter at WTVY-TV in Dothan, Ala.
He, his wife Jasmine and dog Bear enjoy calling Baton Rouge home.
Contact Scottie via email at shunter@wafb.com.
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Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 7:33 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Gray News staff
New documents state Nathan Millard’s apparent overdose death came after a night of prostitution and smoking crack cocaine.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 5:09 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
Derrick Perkins, the man accused of dumping the body of Georgia businessman Nathan Millard, tried to find Narcan to revive him, new arrest warrants in the case claim.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2023 at 1:40 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
Two violent incidents between an East Baton Rouge School System employee and a non-verbal autistic student have landed the worker in jail.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 4:14 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
Three of the men accused of participating in or witnessing a sexual encounter involving an LSU student before her death bonded out of prison, according to records from the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 3:32 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
Prosecutors will seek upgraded first-degree rape charges against men arrested after an alleged sexual encounter with an LSU student before her death hours later.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 6:28 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
It’s the first time Breanna Jones has seen her damaged home since the fire. She could only shake her head as she walked past her scorched door and burned belongings.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 8:18 PM CST
|By Chris Rosato and Scottie Hunter
A man who led Louisiana State Police on a high-speed chase down Interstate 10 was eventually shot and killed when the pursuit reached the Baton Rouge city limits late Thursday evening, December 8.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 6:26 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
Sabrina Scott, 35, was arrested during a drug bust this week and was previously investigated by the Department of Children and Family Services according to an internal DCFS report obtained by the WAFB I-TEAM.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 6:21 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
The head of the Department of Children and Family Services, Marketa Garner Walters, has resigned from her post less than a week after Scottie Hunter and the WAFB I-TEAM exposed the agency’s latest misstep which allowed 1-year-old Jarhei Paul to die on their watch October 31, 2022.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 7:58 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
Officials with Louisiana’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) are addressing the media Monday, Nov. 7, 2022 about their most recent handling of a case that resulted in the death of 1-year-old Jahrei Paul.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2022 at 12:21 AM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
The agency tasked with keeping kids safe across the state, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), is now telling the public exactly how they failed another child, only after the WAFB I-TEAM exposed the botched handling of a case that left 1-year-old Jahrei Paul dead.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2022 at 4:56 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
The driver of an SUV wanted for the deadly hit-and-run of a pedestrian turned himself in to Baton Rouge police the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 12.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 6:28 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
A Louisiana state trooper’s admission that he paid a hotel front desk clerk $200 dollars for sex may have helped him dodge a rape charge while at an out-of-state conference, investigative records obtained by WAFB show.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2022 at 10:47 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
A memorial has been setup near the spot where LSU senior Allie Rice was shot and killed early Friday morning.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 4:17 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
A former Louisiana State Police trooper has taken a plea deal more than four years after she was accused of shooting a teenager.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2022 at 7:04 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
A former employee says enough is enough and just a few months ago, she decided to call it quits at the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 6:33 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
A current employee inside DCFS said the staffing numbers are in free fall as one frontline worker leaves after another, all while cases explode.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 3:47 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
Officials with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) have released the initial findings of the internal investigation into the agency’s handling of a case that resulted in the death of two-year-old Mitchell Robinson, III.
THE INVESTIGATORS: DCFS previously involved with mother charged with murder in child’s hot car death
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 3:40 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
A Lake Charles woman is charged with murder after allegedly leaving her baby in her SUV for around five hours Sunday, resulting in the child’s death.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 6:47 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
The 9News Investigators have learned that the Department of Children and Family Services is conducting a full review of how the case was handled after the overdose death of a 2-year-old boy.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2022 at 1:19 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter, Kevin Foster and Jordan Gartner
A trooper stopped the head of Louisiana State Police for speeding along a dangerous stretch of a Louisiana interstate last month.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2022 at 6:18 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
Davis said Friday that he was “simply wrong in that situation.”
Updated: Jul. 7, 2022 at 11:09 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
The head of Louisiana State Police (LSP) was stopped for speeding along a dangerous stretch of a Louisiana interstate last month.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 6:22 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
Attorney Lance Unglesby claims his team has proof the homes built by D.R. Horton are not being built properly and leading to big time problems for customers. Unglesby wants to matter to continue to play out in court and in the public because he believes the public has the right to know.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2022 at 9:50 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
The 9News Investigators have learned the man accused of gruesomely killing a woman and streaming the violent encounter on Facebook Live was released from prison just weeks before the attack.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2022 at 6:25 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
Questions are swirling over how a car that was contracted to an LSU football player through NIL ended up reportedly stolen and pulled over.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 5:35 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
Exclusive new audio obtained by the 9News Investigators revealed what was said when retired Louisiana State Police (LSP) superintendent Kevin Reeves and his legal team met privately with Louisiana House Speaker Clay Schexnayder (R - Gonzales) earlier this year to discuss Ronald Greene’s death investigation.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2021 at 5:45 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
Matthew Mire has been indicted on charges in Ascension Parish shortly after Livingston and East Baton Rouge parishes added the charges the shooting spree suspect is facing.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2021 at 5:25 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
The head of Louisiana State Police, Col. Lamar Davis, announced changes are being made with the agency amid the investigation into the ambush killing of Master Trooper Adam Gaubert.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2021 at 5:24 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
McLindon says Dean did nothing wrong. As Attorney General Jeff Landry’s Office looks into what happened, he is firm- his client will not face any criminal charges.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2021 at 10:34 AM CDT
|By WAFB Staff and Scottie Hunter
Attorneys representing a hospice patient, who was among more than 850 nursing homes patients evacuated to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish before Hurricane Ida announced they are filing a lawsuit against the nursing home’s owner and the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH).
Updated: Sep. 2, 2021 at 5:25 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
Four nursing home residents died at a facility in Tangipahoa Parish that housing more than 800 residents who had been evacuated from the New Orleans area, officials with the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) announced on Thursday, Sept. 2.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2021 at 1:15 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
A spokeswoman with the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office confirms the agency is investigating a reported theft from the Frenzies Adult Store in Denham Springs.
Updated: May. 28, 2021 at 11:33 AM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
The attorney for the family of Ronald Greene held a news conference on the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge Thursday, May 27, almost one week after Louisiana State Police released all of the body camera footage from his deadly arrest in the Monroe area in 2019.
Updated: May. 26, 2021 at 3:57 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
In body camera video obtained by the 9News Investigators, a Baton Rouge police officer can be seen strip-searching a 16-year-old and his older brother during a traffic stop in broad daylight.
Updated: May. 19, 2021 at 12:55 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and WAFB Staff
Louisiana State Police say the publishing of body camera footage of the deadly arrest of Ronald Greene by a national news outlet is premature.
Updated: May. 11, 2021 at 5:48 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
According to an inventory of the last five years, agencies across Louisiana reported 9,926 items missing.
Updated: May. 4, 2021 at 2:01 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
BREAKING NEWS
Updated: Apr. 23, 2021 at 8:34 AM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
Izell Richardson Jr., 67, still recalls the shock of 50,000 volts of electricity pulsed into his body by a Louisiana police officer. A 45-minute, graphic video shows the chaotic moments of the March encounter.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2021 at 6:16 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
NBA YoungBoy, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden, has been booked into jail in St. Martin Parish after being taken into custody. No charges are listed for him.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2021 at 9:29 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
The legislative auditor has flagged the Louisiana Workforce Commission for what appears to be improper payments through the unemployment program.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2021 at 6:05 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
Gloria Scott denies ever putting a price tag on her silence about alleged sexual harassment by former Louisiana State University (LSU) Tiger football star Derrius Guice.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2021 at 3:50 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster and Scottie Hunter
A spokesperson said should additional evidence be brought forward investigators will follow up on the case again.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2021 at 10:34 AM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
District Attorney Hillar Moore’s office is dropping 640 drug cases tied directly to potential corruption within the narcotics division with the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2021 at 12:30 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter, Kevin Foster and Nick Gremillion
Officials have confirmed the trooper’s resignation was effective close of business March 10.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2021 at 2:18 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
The three officers involved in an encounter with LSU football player Koy Moore that gained national attention have been cleared of any wrongdoing, the 9News Investigators have learned.
THE INVESTIGATORS: Complaints continue for LWC one week after agency extended call center operations
Updated: Jan. 15, 2021 at 5:23 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
The complaints continue to pile up for the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) exactly one week after leadership within the agency extended the operations of call centers to help tackle more of the claims.
Updated: Dec. 17, 2020 at 5:53 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
Louisiana State Police cadets suffered such severe injuries during the 2019 State Police Academy that one nurse said the cadets resembled “victims of domestic abuse and motor vehicle crashes.”
Updated: Dec. 11, 2020 at 2:08 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
During his arrest, Aaron Bowman was allegedly beaten with a flashlight and cursed at by members of law enforcement, court records obtained by the 9News Investigators say.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2020 at 9:23 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
As the Baton Rouge Police Department continues to investigate claims that LSU freshman wide receiver, Koy Moore, was violated by three officers, an incident report obtained by the 9News Investigators details what led officers to that encounter in the first place.
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