BRPD arrests woman on attempted murder charges after fight leads to shooting along Delaware Street
Jun 25, 2026
BATON ROUGE mdash; Baton Rouge Police arrested a woman on attempted murder charges after a shooting earlier this week injured one person along Delaware Street.A BRPD spokesperson said that 22-year-old Alyssa Jackson and another woman got into a fight along Delaware near the intersection of Sherwood
Street around 10:42 p.m. on Tuesday.nbsp;At some point during the fight, a gun was drawn and shots were fired. A man intervened and took the gun from Jackson.nbsp;Police eventually arrived and learned that Jackson had fired the gun that seriously injured the other woman, who was taken to the hospital. The injuries are non-life-threatening, police said.Jackson was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on attempted second-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon charges.Later in the evening, another unrelated shooting happened about a mile south along Winbourne Avenue. WBRZ reported that one person was injured in the shooting.nbsp;Permalink| Comments
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