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Third suspect arrested in fatal June shooting along Choctaw Drive

5 hours 37 minutes 48 seconds ago Thursday, December 11 2025 Dec 11, 2025 December 11, 2025 10:50 AM December 11, 2025 in News
Source: WBRZ

BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a fatal shooting that left a 24-year-old woman dead along Choctaw Drive in June.

Derrick Scott, 24, was arrested on six counts of attempted first-degree murder, as well as one count each of illegal use of a weapon and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. 

Prenesha Wagner was shot and killed during an exchange of gunfire in front of an after-hours club along Choctaw on June 22; several other people were also injured.

Police previously arrested a 15-year-old and 18-year-old Scott Strickland on principal to murder and principal to attempted murder charges.

According to police, Scott has an arrest criminal history of first-degree murder, battery, aggrvated criminal damage to property, gun and narcotics charges.

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