BATON ROUGE, LA, (THECOUNT) — Ivory Mandell Profit Jr has been identified as the man killed following a shooting Saturday morning at Howell Community Park in Baton Rouge, police said Sunday morning.
Profit, 26, was shot in the stomach around 11:30 a.m. Saturday by an unknown assailant.
The shooter’s identity remains unknown, but authorities said robbery appears to be the motive behind the shooting, reports TheAdvocate.
Profit was transported to an area hospital where was later pronounced dead of gunshot injuries, according to police.
Police urge anyone with information relative to this shooting to contact the Violent Crimes Unit at 389-4869 or Crime Stoppers at 344-7867.
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Geo quick facts: Baton Rouge is a city on the Mississippi River, and the capital of Louisiana. Antebellum landmarks include the castle-like Old Louisiana State Capitol, now a museum, and Magnolia Mound Plantation, with its French Creole house. LSU Rural Life Museum is a complex of refurbished buildings illustrating 18th- and 19th-century life. On the river, the USS Kidd is a retired WWII destroyer that is now a museum – wikipedia.
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