Murder & Other Homicide Crimes

Last Friday, 20-year-old Michal Louding was convicted of murdering Terry Boyd in Baton Rouge in 2009. Louding, about whom we’ve previously written, testified last year during the first-degree murder trial of rapper Torence Hatch. The latter was acquitted in May...

According to a new study conducted by researchers with Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination (BRAVE), a program aiming to eliminate community violence, a large percentage of homicides in East Baton Rouge between September 2010 and October 2012 involved "known gang...

A 24-year-old East Baton Rouge man and his father, who were facing a charge of attempted second-degree murder for allegedly beating another man, are now facing charges of second-degree murder and fugitive from justice. Both the man and his father were arrested and...

A 30-year-old suspect is currently the target of a search currently being conducted by New Orleans police in connection with the shooting of a man in eastern New Orleans on Monday night. According to police, the man fatally shot a 28-year-old man multiple times on...

Michael Louding, a young man accused of slaying Terry Boyd in October 2009 for pay, received bad news on Monday after a judge refused to throw out one of his first-degree murder indictment and declined to suppress incriminating statements he reportedly gave to Baton...

According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, while violent crimes-murder, rape, robbery-increased in 2012, the overall number of "major crimes" actually reduced. Major crimes, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program, include not only murder, rape and...

East Baton Rouge Parish prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty in a murder case involving Dominique Dantoni Smith, a man accused of taking the life of his former girlfriend and her 3-year-old son. In that incident, which reportedly took place at a park near...

Only weeks after East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Kip Holden announced in his annual State of the City address that murders were down 60 percent in Baton-pointing to statistics showing a decline in violent killings in the last several months of 2012. In...

Earlier this month two Baton Rouge men were arrested after being accused of the murder of a man in Sorrento on January 12th. Gerald Wilkins was reportedly found shot to death on the side of a road in what authorities are calling an execution style slaying. Both the...

Baton Rouge's high murder rate will reportedly be a focus in the coming year. According to Baton Rouge Police, unofficial estimates indicate the city's murder rate rose slightly in 2012. Over the course of the year, 67 people were murdered within city limits, which is...