Jordan Whitley, son of Kendra Bazile, who passed away from a single-vehicle crash on January 26, 2024.
As we continue our deep dive into the East Baton Rouge Parish (EBRP) Emergency Medical Services (EMS), let us begin by referencing EBRP Mayor President Sid Edwards’ December 3, 2025 announcement that he has abandoned his controversial proposed merger of the BR Fire Department with EBRP EMS.
In announcing that abandonment, Edwards even referenced a phrase which Sound Off Louisiana’s founder, Robert Burns, uttered in our November 16, 2025 third segment with EBRP Paramedic Association President Janice Willard and Vice President Allison Sharp in stating, “the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze.”
Edwards said in his announcement that, “the lawsuit (filed by the Paramedic Association) didn’t bother me one lick.” He added, “I don’t make decisions based on that. It don’t (sic) motivate me one way or the other.”
Yeah, right! It’s our firm belief that someone with sharp legal skills informed Edwards that he was going to get clobbered in court as attorney Robert Aguiluz, himself a former paramedic and attorney for the Association, made it crystal clear that he would be filing a Motion for Summary Judgment in seeking a Declaratory Judgment that Edwards’ plan was, “illegal on its face as it violates the Parish’s Plan of Government.”
Further, though Edwards stated in his announcement that he would not let the merger resurface, Aguiluz countered by stating that Edwards, “has demonstrated that he repeatedly changes his mind more frequently as Mayor President than he changed coaching shorts as a high school coach.”
Given Aguiluz’s quote above and him further contending that the only way Edwards’ pronouncement could be genuinely relied upon would be with a 19th JDC decision declaring the proposed merger illegal, Aguiluz committed to continue with the lawsuit. Likewise, we commit to attend any court hearing pertaining to that litigation and provide coverage of the outcome of any such court hearing.
Okay. On to the next segment of our deep dive into EBRP EMS. Today, we’re presenting Segment 3 of Kendra Bazile’s continuing efforts to obtain answers regarding the single-car crash which claimed the life of her son on January 26, 2024.
Everyone may recall that Segment One was presented on October 19, 2025, and Segment Two was presented on October 24, 2025. Here’s video coverage of Segment 3:
Segment 3: Kendra Bazile, along with family friend “Junior,” engage in the third of a four-part series entailing the single-car crash that claimed the life of her son, Jordan Whitley, on January 26, 2024 and the potential for shortcomings on the parts of first responders who responded to and/or investigated the response since the time of the crash.
In the above video, Bazile references communications which she had with an EBRP Sheriff’s Deputy. She informed us that those conversations took place on March 20, 2024, which was 54 days after the accident. She provided us with audio excerpts from her phone call with the Deputy, and here are those audio excerpts:
3/20/24: Brief (1-minute) excerpt of a recorded phone call between Bazile and the first arriver on the scene of the accident, an EBRP Sheriff Deputy.
3/20/24: Three-minute excerpt of a recorded phone call between Bazile and the EBRP Sheriff Deputy during which Bazile manages to get the Deputy to admit that he made no effort to assess her son’s condition regarding whether he may be still alive or not.
Bazile also provided contradictory statements made to her by EBRP EMS. Let’s present documentation she supplied to us to substantiate that fact:
Let’s conclude this segment of the deep dive into the particulars of Whitley’s accident by providing documents Bazile supplied to us entailing questions she posed of the EBRP Sheriff’s Office, along with their responses, and her replies back to those responses:
Question 1: Why wasn’t the Deputy equipped with body cam?
Question 2: Why did it take 20 minutes for the Deputy to arrive on scene from his dispatch location?
Question Series 3: Why does dash cam video begin with deputy out of his patrol unit? At what point/time was the dash cam turned on? Are there minutes that were removed from the video that was released to me?
We know everyone is going to look very forward to the fourth and final episode of Ms. Bazile’s extensive efforts to uncover answers to just what all transpired on the morning of her son’s unfortunate death.
Let us now provide the updated table of all of our extensive features providing a very deep dive into EBRP EMS operations and the recent controversies thereof: