Police said they have yet to identify which one of the two suspected shooters shot and killed the women.
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A witness told investigators that Felton started the shooting by opening fire on the other man’s vehicle. Monday, Felton’s bond was set by a judge at $90,000.
“They really represented the university very well”, Moore said.
Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson also released a statement which said, in part: “Annette January, a 2015 graduate of Thea Bowman; in the top 10 of her class, a star athlete, fulfilling dreams and doing all the things our parents would like for us to do”.
A third person, a 24-year-old man who suffered gunshot injuries, is expected to recover. Both were 19 years old.
Police said Felton and the injured survivor of the triple shooting were in a gun battle in the parking lot of the Cottages apartment complex on Ben Hur between Burbank and Nicholson early Sunday morning. January was a popular member of the school’s track and field team and a business major and Benton was an athletic trainer and studied sports medicine. Felton was later arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon.
Two Southern University students were killed in a shooting early Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, NBC News reports.
The Baton Rouge Police Department is continuing their investigation into the shooting that killed Lashuntae Benton and Annette January.
Police in Louisiana say two college students were shot and killed early Sunday in front of an apartment building in Baton Rouge near Louisiana State University.
“It doesn’t change what happened”.
“She was just caught in the middle”, Dawn January said of her daughter.
A candlelight vigil for the slain students was planned for Tuesday evening on Southern’s campus.
“My baby was a very vibrant child, a lovely child with a handsome heart”, said Benton’s mother, Theresa Tillman.
“Annette wanted to be the best at whatever she did”, Protho-Guider said.
January was the captain of the track team and member of the student council at her high school in in Gary, said her former track coach, Jerae Protho-Guider.
A mother of one of the slain students said police told her that her daughter, 19-year-old Lashuntae Benton, of Lake Charles, wasn’t an intended target of the shooting.
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“She didn’t meet any strangers”, she said.
