EAST BATON ROUGE — After eight years of dozens of court and insanity hearings, heartache and refusal to take responsibility, the Breeden family finally has some justice. Serial killer Ryan Sharpe was sentenced to a second life sentence without parole on Dec. 12, 2025. This time, he was in East Baton Rouge Parish, where a jury took less than 30 minutes to find Ryan Sharpe guilty of second-degree murder of Carroll Breeden on Sept. 19, 2017.
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“You took my dad’s life in the most senseless, cruel, and heartless way imaginable. He was simply out spraying weeds, doing what he had done a thousand times before, when you decided to take everything from us. Your actions were random, but the devastation you caused is permanent,” Breeden’s daughter Marcie Breeden Flotte said during victim impact statements.
“You didn’t just kill my father that day. You shattered me. You broke something inside my family that can never be fixed and you changed the entire future of my children forever. He was the kind of man the world needs more of, and you stole him from us without hesitation, without reason, without humanity.”
“My family and I remember every detail of that horrendous day. What day of the week it was, what time of the day it was, what we were doing at the time of the murder, how hard it was to tell my children, the list goes on and on. We will never forget because with every year that goes by we are reminded of everything that he has missed birthdays, holiday holidays, graduations weddings, milestones, the quiet moments, the lectures, the hugs, the times when I still reached for the phone to call him before reality crashes in,” said Breeden’s oldest daughter Angie Breeden Davis.
Breeden was a retired BREC Commissioner who lived on Port Hudson-Pride Road, just miles from the East Baton Rouge–East Feliciana Parish line. Ryan Sharpe left residents in both parishes on edge from July to October 2017 until he was arrested. In total, Sharpe was accused of shooting at four men, claiming he had hunting tags from the federal government he had to fulfill. Three of the men died.
Sharpe is already serving a life sentence for the killing of Brad DeFranceschi. Tommy Bass’ murder was folded into that particular trial, which is why the district attorney was able to pursue a first-degree murder charge. Buck Hornsby survived being shot at. By definition, a serial killer is anyone who has killed three or more people. Sharpe is now convicted in three killings.
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“You took my father’s freedom and now you have lost your own”
“For eight long years, we waited for justice. For eight years, we waited — exhausted, anxious, and hurting — because you refused to take responsibility. You showed no remorse for what you did. You could have pleaded guilty and spared us years of pain, but instead, you let this drag on, leaving your victims to suffer while you avoided accountability. The toll it took on us is something you will never understand.”
Marcie went on to talk about her children and how the moment their learned their grandfather died, they were no longer children. They were forced to grow up. “You took their sense of safety. You took the man who cheered their games, who hugged them tight, who made everything in their world feel steady and okay. You destroyed that for them. You destroyed my kids and I hate you for that.”
Sharpe’s second life sentence without parole cannot bring back Breeden, “…but it does bring one thing: the certainty that you will never have the chance to hurt another family again the way you hurt ours. You took my father’s freedom and now you have lost your own. From the bottom of my heart, I hope you carry the weight of what you did every single day. I have nothing left for you but contempt. May you live the rest of your life remembering the pain you caused.”
“Ryan Sharpe didn’t just murder my father. He stole every future memory we were supposed to have.”
Breeden’s son Buzz also spoke up saying as a child, his heroes were athletes. But in reality, his true hero was his father. As his dad did with him, Buzz was coaching his son soccer when the worst possible news was delivered: his father was killed and the person responsible fled the scene.
“What should have been a moment of joy and tradition became the last time I ever coached. Even today, whenever I step onto the field at the Live Oak Sports Complex, I am pulled right back to that night,” Buzz Breeden said in court. “In the days and weeks that followed, all I wanted to know was who did this to my father and why. Once we learned those answers, all I wanted was justice. I knew nothing could ever fill the hole his death left, but I never expected the road to justice to be this long or this painful.”
Buzz stressed the years-long delay with multiple judges, hearings, COVID and much more.
“Every delay reopened wounds and triggered memories of that night. Every setback made us relive our loss again. After all of this, we are finally here—finally at a point where there are no more delays, no more excuses. After years of attempting to claim insanity, the best explanation the defense could offer was that Ryan Sharpe stopped having crawfish boils with his friends and started locking his gate—something any rational person might do when preparing to hunt people. The jury saw through this immediately.”
It took a jury less than 30 minutes to return a guilty verdict for second-degree murder.
“Ryan Sharpe didn’t just murder my father. He stole every future memory we were supposed to have: family trips, graduations, milestones, and a million more of his irreplaceable laughs. He stole time that belonged to us and changed the course of our lives. I ask that you allow us the peace of moving forward. Help us honor my father without constantly being forced to relive the night he was taken from us.”
“The loss of my father wasn’t just the loss of a father. It was the loss of a friend, a comforter, a shoulder to cry on and a constant present in my life.”
“My dad Carroll was everything a father should be. He had this rare passion for life and determination that inspired everyone around him. Once he had retired, he was living his best life traveling with family and friends going on fishing excursions with his best buddies, picking up his grandbabies from school, even when they misbehaved and never missing an important milestone when it came to his children and grandchildren,” Angela Breeden Davis said during victim impact statements.
Davis was the oldest of Breeden’s children. She said she lost so much more than just her dad. “It was the loss of a friend, a comforter, a shoulder to cry on and a constant present in my life. His murder didn’t take away the past it robbed us of the future we were supposed to all have together.”
She told Sharpe he took away more than just the man who meant the world to him. He shattered their safety and peace.
“Ryan Sharpe, your game of charades is over. You can stop with the poor acting performance of staring in his space as if you were dazing, mumbling to yourself, pretending to lack social skills, carrying on with your obnoxious outburst and displaying your evil grin,” she added.
The told Sharpe that he would no longer be known to her as Ryan Sharpe. Instead from hereon out, he would be DOC #752086.
“We will continue to live in the shadow of his absence every single day, but knowing that you will spend the rest of your days behind bars being known as simply a DOC number brings some sense of gratitude to me and my family,” she closed.
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