On January 1, 2024, 15-year-old Ramide Cosey, a freshman and football player at Istrouma High School, was shot and killed while walking with three other juveniles in the 4600 block of West Brookstown Drive in Baton Rouge. A passing vehicle opened fire; Cosey was pronounced dead at the scene and the three other youths suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to a hospital.

Baton Rouge Police Department homicide detectives and the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force later arrested three juveniles on February 27, 2024; they were booked on charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. The case was later presented to a grand jury, which declined to indict at least two of the teens named in reports, Treyvon Collins and Eddie Monroe, who were released in September after months in custody. The third juvenile’s identity has not been publicly disclosed and no motive has been reported.

Did anyone in the West Brookstown Drive area see the shooting or the vehicle that passed by that day?