A Baton Rouge man was arrested in the June shooting deaths of two people, police reported Wednesday.
The shooting took place around 1:50 a.m. on June 29 in the 10100 block of Avenue E, off Scenic Highway, said BRPD spokesman Sgt. Don Coppola Jr.
Two men were found in a vehicle suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Police have identified them as Burnell Williams, 40, and Jeremy Sincere, 26.
Demarcus Jones, 37, was arrested on Wednesday with the assistance of the State Police Fugitive Task Force. He was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on two counts of first-degree murder and multiple drug counts.
His arrest report shows that police first determined that an "older model white Oldsmobile" had been at the scene of the shooting, and that someone got out of that car and took something from the vehicle where the victims were sitting, then fled the scene.
Detectives obtained surveillance footage from a nearby business and took a screenshot of the fleeing car, which was disseminated among local law enforcement, according to the report. East Baton Rouge sheriff's deputies later contacted BRPD and said the vehicle had been located at a store on North Sherwood Forest Drive.
Surveillance from that store showed someone had cleaned items out of the Oldsmobile and left it in the parking lot, police said. Detectives identified that person as Jones and determined he was on felony supervision through the Louisiana Department of Probation and Parole.
Police later searched the Oldsmobile and found a bloody latex glove inside. A DNA analysis revealed the blood belonged to Williams, one of the victims.
