Eric Lathers, 27, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of June 4, 2026, in Baton Rouge. Police were called to the 2500 block of 73rd Avenue at about 1:35 a.m.; officers found Lathers already deceased inside a vehicle from gunshot wounds and pronounced him dead at the scene. The discovery turned the initial call into a homicide investigation centered on that location as detectives worked to establish what happened before officers arrived, who fired the shots, and why Lathers was targeted.

The Baton Rouge Police Department described the case as an active, ongoing investigation and asked anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers at 225-344-7867.

Did anyone in the Baton Rouge area see or hear anything around 1:35 a.m. on June 4 that could help investigators?