On the late afternoon of November 14, 2025, 37-year-old Darrell McBride of Baton Rouge went to the 2700 block of Lorraine Street to sell personal items and instead was ambushed. A group of about ten men surrounded the vehicle he was in, pulled him out and began a violent assault. McBride tried to flee, stumbled and fell in a driveway, and was shot in the roadway. Witnesses say at least one assailant continued to beat him after the gunshot. He was taken to a hospital and later died of his gunshot wound.

His mother, Lori Patterson, said McBride had trusted these individuals and she had warned him about them. In the months after the killing, three men were arrested: 39-year-old Raydrick Sterling, 39-year-old Christopher Andrews, and 43-year-old Damian Drake. Video and witness statements reportedly show Sterling striking McBride with an object resembling a pipe and Drake — who has a paralyzed arm — using his functioning arm to hit McBride before and after the shooting. All three were booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison and charged with second-degree murder.

Did anyone in the Baton Rouge area see or have information about McBride’s movements or contacts that day?