East Baton Rouge Parish surpassing record for homicides with 2 months left in the year

BATON ROUGE - On Wednesday, students at southern university released 19 white balloons—one for each year fellow student Shayla James lived on this earth. Last week she was shot to death in her bed.Shayla is just one of 140 people in the parish who were killed this year."It's heartbreaking,” said her mom Shondreka. “You see it all the time, but you never expect it to hit that close to home."Further yet, Shayla was a victim of domestic violence, which has also skyroc