Baton Rouge Police have arrested three 19-year-old men in the murder of a pregnant woman and her unborn child early Sunday morning. Sgt. L’Jean McKneely says minutes before the shooting – the victim dropped off teens at a party in the area.
“From what we learned there was apparently some shooting in the area. She had heard the shots being fired and called the kids to say she was going to return to pick them up.”
36-year-old Kerisha Johnson – who was nine months pregnant – heard gunfire in the area after dropping off the teens and returned to pick them up. McKneely says while Johnson was sitting in her vehicle waiting for the teens to come out of the party, the three suspects fired at her car.
“The individuals that were shooting were shooting at her car because they believed that the persons that were shooting might have been her.”
McKneely says one of the shooters who was injured by gunfire was transported to a local hospital and was booked upon his release into Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
“We were able to get the information that was needed that allowed us to make the arrest on those three nineteen-year-olds.”
19-year-old Marques Porch, 19-year-old Gregory Parker, and 19-year-old Derrick Curry were charged with second-degree murder and first-degree feticide. The investigation is ongoing.
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