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BRPD investigates two separate Friday night shootings with a third occurring early Saturday morning
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BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Police are investigating two separate shootings that occurred Friday night, with another occurring early Saturday morning.
According to officers, the first shooting took place around 7 p.m. on Friday on North 44 Street when a man was shot multiple times before later being transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Just minutes later, a second shooting occurred on the 2300 block of 68th Avenue around 7:15 p.m., leaving one person with minor injuries.
Following these incidents, on Saturday, around 3 a.m., police responded to a third shooting at a Super Stop on North Foster. Officers arrived to find the victim in the parking lot suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim was transported to a hospital in stable condition.
These shootings come after two people were killed on Thursday in separate shootings related to domestic violence.
18-year-old Kassidy Jackson was shot and killed at her home on Columbus Dunn Drive by her ex-girlfriend, Paulisa Banks, following an altercation.
27-year-old Alfred Webester Hyams was also killed after a fight escalated into a shooting along Alaska Street that same day.
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