BATON ROUGE — In less than an hour’s timeframe, Baton Rouge Police responded to three homicides in two separate scenes.
The most recent happened around 4:20pm in the 1000 block of Townsley St. on Tuesday, June 27. Officers responded to it while on scene of another shooting on Woodpecker Ave. about a mile away.
Two people were shot on Townsley St. with Joseph Prohet, 48, having died on the scene. He was shot multiple times while inside a home. A woman, Robin Hayes, 52, was transported to a hospital but died of her injuries.
The double homicide comes less than an hour after a homicide about a mile away on Woodpecker Ave. where a person was shot and killed in a vehicle.
No further details have been provided on what led up to the shootings and killings.
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