BATON ROUGE — An alleged drug dealer was arrested for murder after a Baton Rouge man died of a cocaine overdose. 

Arrest documents from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office show a man died in his "man cave" at his home along Watts Road on Nov. 25, 2025. Investigators found cocaine and a straw with coke residue on it in the room, and an autopsy attributed his cause of death to a cocaine overdose. 

The man's family found a text exchange on his phone with a contact named "Donny" where the two appear to discuss buying drugs, documents show. 

"Do you think you could get about 80 [dollars] worth tomorrow night?" the man asked Donny. 

"That's the good stuff. Yes I can. My connection for that is solid. What time? 6, 7, 8??? I got me an 80 a couple weeks ago," Donny replied. 

Further messages show the two arranging a time and place to meet. 

Through an investigation, deputies say they identified "Donny" as 60-year-old Don Ludwick Truly.

Deputies detained Truly at his job on March 24 and took him in for questioning. According to an arrest affidavit, Truly admitted to selling the man $80 worth of cocaine.

Truly was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on charges of second-degree murder and possession/distribution of a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance.