Jordan Jenkins was fatally shot on the evening of August 16, 2021, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooting occurred at about 8:55 p.m. in the 7400 block of Simplex Street. Jenkins, 26 and a resident of Cadillac Street, was found with fatal gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. A second male victim was wounded and taken to a hospital; he was expected to survive. The motive was not immediately clear.

On September 28, 2021, Baton Rouge Police Homicide Detectives, with assistance from the U.S. Marshals, arrested two suspects identified as 32-year-old Marvin Payne and 29-year-old Jeremy Payne. Both were booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison and charged with second-degree murder in connection with Jenkins’s death, attempted second-degree murder for the injured victim, illegal use of a weapon, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The investigation remained ongoing.

If anyone has information about Jordan, the shooting, or the events on Simplex Street that evening, please share what you know.