The opening weekend of the high school football season was marred by a fatal shooting at the Brusly-Port Allen game on Friday night. Sergeant Landon Groger with the West Baton Rouge Sheriff’s during halftime, 18-year-old Jarrettin Jackson the Second shot 16-year-old Ja’Kobe Queen only a few feet away from a concession stand.
“It is my understanding that there was an altercation that occurred between these two, but as far as details to what led up to that horrifying event, it’s unclear at this time,” said Groger.
Queen was a student at Brusly High School. A 26-year-old woman was also shot in the arm.
Groger says it was a senseless act of violence at one of the biggest events of the year in West Baton Rouge Parish, the Sugar Cane Classic.
“After a hot summer, everybody was looking forward to coming out on these Friday night lights, not only were there students and teachers there, but we had families, children, staff and just our communities coming together as a whole,” said Groger.
Groger says they’ll work to make sure future football games and other public events in West Baton Rouge are safe. But he says its a bad situation when an 18-year-old feels a need to bring a gun to a high school football game.
“It starts in the home with the parents, and discipline, and being involved with your faith based groups,” said Groger.
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