BATON ROUGE - One person was shot to death at an apartment complex on Sherwood Hollow Court Christmas morning.

Baton Rouge Police Department said 36-year-old Brandon Samuel was found in the parking lot suffering from a gunshot wound around 9 a.m.

Samuel died at the scene near the Sherwood exit on I-12.

The case will add to the record homicides in East Baton Rouge this year which are approaching 170 in 2021.

No more information was immediately available.