BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Police have now arrested a second person in connection to a deadly shooting that left a 24-year-old killed and six others injured around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 22. It comes after police already arrested a 15-year-old.
The 18-year-old has been identified as Scott Strickland and is charged with one count of principal to first-degree murder and six counts of attempted first-degree murder. Police say surveillance video showed a group of people arriving to the shooting scene in a silver F-150 Ford truck and exiting the truck with guns. The shooting was caught on video and then the group was captured on video leaving the scene in the same truck, according to arresting documents. Strickland was picked out as one of the individuals shooting into the crowd, per documents.
His arrest comes after a 15-year-old was in late June for his alleged role in the shooting.
The 15-year-old male is charged with principal to first-degree murder and six counts of principal to attempted first-degree murder. His name cannot be released due to his age. He’s being held at the Baton Rouge Juvenile Detention Center.
Baton Rouge Police say what started as a fight in a parking lot ended with roughly 160 shell casings found. A 24-year-old woman died due to the shooting. She’s been identified as Prenesha Wagner.
It was around 1:30 a.m. when several women got into a physical fight in an after hours club’s parking lot on Choctaw Dr., BRPD told UWK. That’s east of N. Acadian Thruway.
Baton Rouge Police Chief T.J. Morse says after the physical fight, there were multiple people who fired off shots, with at least one person firing off shots into the crowd. That’s when a BRPD officer showed up at the scene and fired two shots in the direction of the gunman.
In total, six people were shot. Prenesha Wagner, 24, died from the shooting. At least three others were transported to a hospital by paramedics and additional people showed up to a Baton Rouge hospital by private vehicle. There were also bullets that hit several parked vehicles at the after hours club, per police.
The officer was not injured.
Police do believe there was more than one person shooting as 160 pistol and rifle rounds were found in the immediate area of the shooting and neighboring blocks.
BRPD confiscated six guns left behind at the scene and towed eight vehicles with some believed to have additional guns inside.
What led up to the fight and shooting remains under investigation.
Anyone with information on the shooting, including those involved, is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 344-STOP.
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