Cedrick Parker, 38, was killed in the early morning hours of November 21, 2021, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He had been celebrating his upcoming 39th birthday with friends at the Charcoal Lounge when gunfire erupted in the lounge parking lot. Detectives found Parker inside a vehicle with a fatal gunshot wound to the head; multiple shell casings were later recovered from the parking areas of both the Charcoal Lounge and the neighboring Who Dat Lounge.

Four other people were shot that night; their injuries were reported as not life-threatening. Parker’s mother, Rosa Parker, and a local business owner described him as an innocent bystander who did not go looking for trouble and who may have been struck by a stray bullet.

If anyone witnessed the shootings or was in the parking lots of the Charcoal Lounge or Who Dat Lounge that night, please come forward with information.