BATON ROUGE - A violent chain of events unfolded Sunday morning, leaving an older woman dead, four others injured and a suspect hospitalized after deputies were forced to shoot the man in order to end a chaotic crime spree.
Good Samaritans may have helped keep the deaths from rising at one of three crime scenes tied to the tirade.
Deputies identified the older woman as Dianne Gafford. The suspect, Aaron Morgan, will be charged with his grandmother’s murder as well as the other shootings once released from the hospital, deputies said.
Gafford was about to celebrate her 79th birthday Thursday.
East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's deputies said the ordeal started at a house in the Wimbledon neighborhood off of Perkins near Bluebonnet where Morgan, 28, killed his grandmother, later identified as Gafford, and stabbed his mother. The mother survived. Her name was not released.
The suspect fled the scene and ended up at the Alexander's grocery store parking lot on Highland Road. There, deputies said, Morgan stole a vehicle after shooting three people. Medics from a walk-in clinic in the parking lot helped treat the injured. Those victims are expected to survive, sheriff's deputies said.