BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Police officers are investigating a fatal shooting that happened late Sunday night in the 1200 block of N. Ardenwood Drive. This follows another fatal shooting on Ardenwood Drive over the weekend, with five people shot on Saturday.
Around 11:48 p.m. on Aug. 30, BRPD responded to a shooting in the 1200 block of N. Ardenwood in reference to a shooting. At the scene, officers were told about a victim in front of a home on N. Donmoor Avenue. The victim was transported to a local hospital and is expected to survive his injuries, per BRPD.
While investigating, BRPD officers were dispatched to a nearby hospital about a person with gunshot wounds, who was transported by personal vehicle. The victim, later identified as 40-year-old Juarz Corbitt Sr, died of his injuries.
The investigation is ongoing.
This incident was the second fatal shooting on Ardenwood over the weekend. Another shooting happened on Saturday, Aug. 29 around 4:45 p.m. where five people were shot, one of whom later died of his injuries. It was also the third deadly shooting incident in Baton Rouge the same weekend, as one happened near 3 a.m. Sunday on N. Foster. One person died in that shooting and three others were injured.
BRPD asks anyone with information about this fatal shooting or the others to contact the Violence Crimes Unit at (225) 389-4869 or Crime Stoppers at (225) 344-7867.
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