NEW ORLEANS — A woman and her unborn child were killed in a shooting Sunday night in Baton Rouge.
The woman was picking someone up from a party on North Carrollton Avenue, according to our partners at WBRZ.
The Baton Rouge Police Department identified the victim as 36-year-old Keisha Johnson.
Officers believe that Johnson was mistaken by the gunmen as someone else who was shooting a gun into the sky near the party.
Marques Porch, Gregory Parker, and Derrick Curry, who were all 19 years old, were arrested and charged with second-degree murder and first-degree feticide.
Our partners at The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate reported that Porch worked for the West Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office as a full-time jail corrections deputy from June 2022 to November 2022 and then came back as a part-time officer working in jail transportation in February 2023. He was fired after the sheriff's office found out he was arrested Sunday night.
"Upon learning of his arrest he was terminated as of yesterday," Corporal Landon Groger, public affairs officer for the West Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office, told our partners.
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