Scottie Hunter
Anchor/Reporter
Baton Rouge, La.
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Scottie Hunter is the co-anchor of 9News at Five with Tisha Powell and also serves as the lead investigative reporter. While there he has covered a number of stories that have garnered national attention.
Most recently he has covered the repeated failures at the Louisiana Department Children and Family Services and the tragic deaths of two Baton Rouge Police Department officers who died when their chopper went down while assisting with a high-speed chase. He also reports on scams, problems at area schools and daycares and other problems that are brought to his attention.
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, his son Jason and dog Bear enjoy calling Baton Rouge home.
Contact Scottie via email at shunter@wafb.com.
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A Louisiana woman is staying busy in July as she welcomes her newest bundle of joy into the world.
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Anthony Varnado is sitting behind bars in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison after being arrested last month on a third-degree rape charge.
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The dean of students at a local private school, in a video provided to WAFB, say he may have let a joke get out of hand with a teenage girl who is accusing him of sending hundreds of dollars to her and coercing her to send explicit photographs.
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The Baton Rouge Police Department has made an arrest after a video surfaced showing a 5-year-old boy smoking while riding in a vehicle with an adult male.
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A police spokesperson said the department became aware of the video about two weeks ago and launched an investigation at that time.
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a preliminary report on Wednesday, April 12, on its investigation into the March 26 crash of a Baton Rouge Police helicopter.
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New documents state Nathan Millard’s apparent overdose death came after a night of prostitution and smoking crack cocaine.
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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.
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Two violent incidents between an East Baton Rouge School System employee and a non-verbal autistic student have landed the worker in jail.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A memorial has been setup near the spot where LSU senior Allie Rice was shot and killed early Friday morning.
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A former Louisiana State Police trooper has taken a plea deal more than four years after she was accused of shooting a teenager.
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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.
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A current employee inside DCFS said the staffing numbers are in free fall as one frontline worker leaves after another, all while cases explode.
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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.
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THE INVESTIGATORS: DCFS previously involved with mother charged with murder in child’s hot car death
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.
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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.
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A trooper stopped the head of Louisiana State Police for speeding along a dangerous stretch of a Louisiana interstate last month.
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Davis said Friday that he was “simply wrong in that situation.”
The head of Louisiana State Police (LSP) was stopped for speeding along a dangerous stretch of a Louisiana interstate last month.
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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.
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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.
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Questions are swirling over how a car that was contracted to an LSU football player through NIL ended up reportedly stolen and pulled over.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Louisiana State Police say the publishing of body camera footage of the deadly arrest of Ronald Greene by a national news outlet is premature.
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According to an inventory of the last five years, agencies across Louisiana reported 9,926 items missing.
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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.
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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.
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The legislative auditor has flagged the Louisiana Workforce Commission for what appears to be improper payments through the unemployment program.
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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.
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A spokesperson said should additional evidence be brought forward investigators will follow up on the case again.
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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.
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