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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) -
Baton Rouge police are investigating a shooting and a crash that left one
person dead Thursday night.
Officials say 30-year-old Brannon Counts was shot in the parking lot in the
5700 block of Hollywood Street just after 5 p.m. Thursday night during what
police are calling an altercation that involved a drug transaction.
Police say after Counts was shot, he sped away and drove through a grassy
field at the corner of Hollywood Street and McClelland Avenue where he crashed
into the backyard fence of a home.
Counts was found dead at the scene of the crash.
Police say 30-year-old Ruben Van Dyke of Alexandra, LA is wanted by the
Baton Rouge Police for his involvement in the shooting and killing of Counts. Van
Dyke was last seen fleeing the area in a white convertible Chrysler Sebring with
a black roof.
Anyone with additional information on this shooting is
urged to contact the Violent Crimes Unit at 389-4869 or Crime Stoppers at
344-STOP.
Ruben Van Dyke (Source: Baton Rouge Police Department)
