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Police arrest 15-year-old accused of involvement in Christmas parade shooting; two other teens sought

2 hours 25 minutes 47 seconds ago Friday, January 10 2025 Jan 10, 2025 January 10, 2025 3:27 PM January 10, 2025 in News
Source: WBRZ

BATON ROUGE — A teenage attempted murder suspect wanted for a shooting shortly after a downtown Baton Rouge Christmas parade was arrested Friday.

Baton Rouge Police said officers arrested Christopher King, 15, for the Dec. 14 shooting that left one person with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.

WBRZ previously reported that three warrants were issued for the shooting, including King's. It’s not clear why an adult warrant was issued for King.

Two 17-year-olds — Treyvon Collins and Eddie Monroe — are still wanted.

Two of the teens had spent months in jail accused of the first murder of 2024, but were released after a grand jury failed to indict them.

Arrest warrants show that investigators found a video of four people involved in the gunfire near the U.S.S Kidd Museum after the parade. They were seen inside a store nearby just before the shooting and the warrant says Collins was “brandishing a firearm and aggressively speaking” to another person.

King was booked into the EBR Juvenile Detention on attempted first-degree murder and illegal weapons charges.

Police added that King was arrested in 2024 for attempted murder, but was never formally charged due to lack of evidence.

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