A summer afternoon on Townsley Street in Baton Rouge ended in gunfire and two deaths. On June 27, 2023, emergency responders arrived around 4:20 p.m. to find 48-year-old Joseph Profit dead of multiple gunshot wounds and 52-year-old Robin Rena Hayes critically wounded. Hayes was transported to a local hospital and later died of her injuries. Baton Rouge Police Homicide Detectives treated the scene as a double homicide.

The investigation continued for weeks before a major development on September 19, 2023, when detectives arrested 37-year-old Derrick Coleman and booked him into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. He faces two counts of first-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon in connection with the shootings.

If anyone on Townsley Street that afternoon or with information about either victim can help the investigation, please come forward.