A shooting in Baton Rouge in the winter of 2024 killed 48-year-old Derek Lee. The incident occurred on the evening of Saturday, December 21 in the 1100 block of North 36th Street. Officers who responded to the scene found Lee with a gunshot wound and he was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.

Lee died the next day, Sunday, December 22, 2024. The Baton Rouge Police Department is investigating his death as a homicide. An obituary listed him as Derrick Darnell Lee, Sr., age 49, and gave December 22, 2024 as his date of death.

If anyone saw activity in the 1100 block of North 36th Street that evening or has information about Derek Lee’s death, please share what is known.