Baker standoff suspect was allegedly connected to April shooting that left one dead, bystander injured

BATON ROUGE - A man arrested after a brief standoff in Baker Tuesday is a suspect in a fatal shooting from April 22. U.S. Marshals were serving a warrant for 27-year-old Alvin Mott Jr. in Baker. He was arrested after a brief standoff. The warrant connected Mott to a fatal shooting from April that happened on Scotland Avenue and left Michael Thomas, 51, dead and another person injured. Arrest documents said Mott and Thomas were involved in a shootout outside the Kangar