Garrett Gee Money Burton was 22 when he was found dead around 1:30 a.m. on September 10, 2017, in a parking lot on Dallas Drive in Baton Rouge. He had been leaving a studio session where he had been recording music and sustained fatal gunshot wounds, dying at the scene.

Investigators tied the killing to an escalating feud between rival rap groups. Authorities said Burton’s Top Boy Gorilla group had been in a dispute with a faction associated with fellow Baton Rouge rapper NBA YoungBoy. Tensions reportedly rose in the days before the shooting amid social media exchanges, and a Gee Money song that allegedly contained derogatory lyrics about NBA YoungBoy’s sister was said to have inflamed the conflict.

In June 2019 police arrested 24-year-old Deandre Demarcus Fields and charged him with second-degree murder; investigators used phone records to place him in Baton Rouge at the time, contradicting his initial statements. In January 2023 Fields pleaded to accessory to murder, saying he was in the vehicle with the shooter but did not fire the fatal shot, and received a five-year sentence.

Did anyone who followed the Baton Rouge scene at the time notice the social media exchanges that preceded this murder?