LA Couple Valerie Franklin & Willmore Baylor ID’d As Victims In Monday Alexandria Double-Fatal Crash

RAPIDES PARISH, LA. (THECOUNT) — Valerie Franklin of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Willmore Baylor of Shreveport, Louisiana, have been identified as the victims in a double-fatal crash in Rapides Parish Monday morning.

Franklin, 28, and Baylor, 26, were both killed in a single-vehicle crash near Alexandria on Monday morning.

According to reports, Baylor was operating a GMC Envoy on Interstate 49, near Alexandria, when for unknown reasons, the vehicle crossed centerlines and exited the roadway. The vehicle then made contact with a grouping of trees.

Both occupants of the vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene of blunt force trauma injuries.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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Geo quick facts: Rapides Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 131,613. The parish seat is Alexandria, which developed along the Red River of the South. Rapides is the French spelling of “rapids” and is pronounced ra-PEEDS – Wikipedia.