A deadly shooting was reported near North Foster Drive on Tuesday afternoon, Baton Rouge EMS said.
Spokesman Brad Harris said one person was confirmed dead at the corner of Wilmot and Addison Streets.
At the scene, a body dressed in black pants and a black sweatshirt lay sprawled in the street, which police had cordoned off.
The victim is the sixth person to lose their life in a shooting in East Baton Rouge Parish since early Sunday morning.
Around 9 a.m. Sunday, Tron Davis 52 was found shot to death in the 4000 block of Tuscarora Street, and Abel Palomares, 28, was killed around 10:30 p.m. in the 12000 block of Province Place, Baton Rouge Police said.
A man was then killed shortly after midnight Monday in the 600 block of West McKinley Street in a shooting that wounded another person; police have not yet identified the victim.
Around noon on Monday, a car was shot up on Acadian Thruway near Gus Young Avenue and its driver, 25-year-old Courtney Brown Jr., was killed. And, shortly after 11 p.m. Monday, the body of a man who had been shot to death was found in the grass at a trailer park in the 4700 block of Lavey Lane in Baker, police said.
This is a developing story.
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