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One person indicted in connection with 2022 death of 3-year-old

22 hours 33 minutes 30 seconds ago Wednesday, August 12 2026 Aug 12, 2026 August 12, 2026 2:36 PM August 12, 2026 in News
Source: WBRZ

BATON ROUGE - One man was indicted Wednesday on murder charges in the shooting death of 3-year-old Devin Page Jr.

Jayden Davis, 23, was indicted by a grand jury for second-degree murder after being taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in California back in April.

Jordan Anderson and Jiles Vaughn were arrested in the case for first-degree murder, but the grand jury declined to charge the two at this time. A future grand jury could choose to bring charges against Anderson and Vaughn again if additional evidence is uncovered, but for now both men will remain in prison for previous convictions.

Page's home was shot just after 11 p.m. on April 12, 2022. The house was riddled with more than 40 bullets.

The toddler was hit in the head while he was sleeping and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officials said the night before, a nearby house on Fairfields Avenue was also shot at. Detectives believe that the home was the intended target the night Page was killed.

"This young child is shot because of some issue that others perceived that they had, based on events that occurred months before. It is unbearable," District Attorney Hillar Moore said.

Davis and the other individuals allegedly visited the other house several times leading up to that shooting, threatening the resident through messages, phone calls, and social media posts, arrest documents say.

"The complexity of this case is much more than simply the killing of Devin Page. You have to take this case back to many other facets that have occurred way before Devin Page's homicide to actually link all the pieces together, and that's what really took so long," Moore said.

Davis is already in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Moore said that a complete lack of cooperation from people with evidence and information on what happened also led to a delay.

WBRZ spoke with Page's grandmother, Cathy Toliver, following the grand jury's decision, saying that every day since Page's death over four years ago has been full of pain.

“My daughter lost her son. I lost my grandson, and my daughter cried through the grand jury hearing. I am hurt. I'm exhausted mentally, as she is as well because it's been a long, long journey," Toliver said.

Since Page's death, Toliver has been a voice in the community for anti-youth violence and helping others affected by it.

"Now that I know this feeling, this pain, I don't want it to affect anybody else, so that's my takeaway. I will spend the rest of my life, to my dying day, to fight and help people who are dealing with unbearable pain," Toliver said.

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