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 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. 15, 2023 at 5:50 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
A woman tells LSU police she has lost $3,000 because of her so-called “sugar daddy.” Consumer protection experts hope her story will serve as a warning to others.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 6:22 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
Numerous people employed as testers for Electronic Arts, located on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, were terminated Tuesday, Feb. 28.
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. 23, 2023 at 6:35 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
Twelve people were hurt and police are working to track down the gunman following a mass shooting at Dior Bar and Lounge in Baton Rouge.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 6:15 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
The Louisiana State Police Commission is stripping two troopers of their pay at the request of State Police.
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: Nov. 16, 2022 at 10:21 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
Rhenda Hodnett, a top leader with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has announced she plans to retire at the end of the year.
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. 9, 2022 at 6:50 PM CST
|By Scottie Hunter
Louisiana’s governor is calling the Department of Children and Family Services’ (DCFS) handling of one its cases an “absolute failure” after a one-year-old boy died of a fentanyl overdose earlier in November.
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. 4, 2022 at 6:21 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
A 1-year-old boy’s death has been ruled a homicide according to the East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office.
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. 7, 2022 at 7:19 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
Gov. John Bel Edwards is doubling down on his support for Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) Secretary Marketa Garner Waters.
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.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 5:35 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster and Scottie Hunter
Gov. John Bel Edwards’ says the handling of certain cases by the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) represents a “real failure.”
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 6:30 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
The 9News Investigators have learned technology is one problem that cannot be fixed so easily.
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. 19, 2022 at 12:33 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
"How do you get a bill like this? It was $52,271.81,” said Harris.
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. 17, 2022 at 6:11 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster and Scottie Hunter
Louisiana State Police’s second-in-command is officially done. Doug Cain retired abruptly as several investigations swirl.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2022 at 5:56 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
A toxicology expert is weighing in after a grandmother is accused of killing her granddaughter by forcing her to drink a bottle of alcohol while the mother watched.
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: 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. 10, 2021 at 6:32 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
Not long after the head of Louisiana State Police announced sweeping changes within the state’s top law enforcement agency, Congressman Troy Carter is calling on the Department of Justice to look into the agency
Updated: Sep. 7, 2021 at 6:30 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
The state says it will yank the license of seven nursing home facilities that evacuated nearly 900 people to a makeshift storm shelter in Independence where seven people later died.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2021 at 4:51 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
Louisiana officials said just before Hurricane Ida roared ashore, someone made the call to empty out seven different nursing homes - evacuating the people to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish.
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: Jul. 9, 2021 at 4:26 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
A man and his twin brother have been indicted for a scheme to defraud the state out of more than $800,000 during the 2020 hurricane season according to prosecutors in West Baton Rouge Parish.
Updated: Jun. 24, 2021 at 3:10 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
The violent and deadly arrest of Ronald Greene at the hands of Louisiana State Police troopers could go before a grand jury in the next few months according to the Greene family legal team.
Updated: Jun. 7, 2021 at 11:18 AM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
An audit conducted by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office has identified several instances where employees with the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) may have been improperly paid for extra hours and in violation of State Civil Service Rules.
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. 18, 2021 at 6:08 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
From a $1,400 vacuum cleaner to a total home fitness gym or even an upright bike, taxpayers have bought a lot for the state of Louisiana over the last five years.
Updated: May. 14, 2021 at 11:55 AM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter
A fired Louisiana State Police trooper who was tased by a fellow trooper during a DWI traffic stop has gotten his job back.
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: 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. 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. 2, 2021 at 6:50 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
Rampant hazing reported on Southern University’s Baton Rouge campus since January of 2019 has led to sanctions and suspensions in three Greek letter organizations and the university’s famed band.
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: 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.”
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