A 17-year-old Baton Rouge man who faced a grand jury as an adult has been indicted on a charge of second-degree murder for a fatal shooting in Baker, court records show.
The defendant, Jordan Franklin, was indicted Thursday in the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge.
On Feb. 12, as Baker police were investigating a shooting death in the 3000 block of Singletary Drive, Franklin's mother brought him to the police department to talk with detectives, the affidavit says.
Franklin told police that he had stayed at his girlfriend's house the night before the shooting and that the two of them had argued the next morning. His girlfriend left the house, and when he followed her he saw another male, later identified as the victim, James Collins Jr., standing nearby and holding a handgun at his side, the arrest report says.
Franklin told police he knew Collins.
He was asked during the interview with detectives "if at any time, the victim raised the firearm, pointed the firearm at him or anyone else or made any statements to him," the affidavit says.
Franklin told police he couldn't remember if Collins pointed the firearm at him, but he remembered Collins didn't say anything to him.
"It looked as if the victim flinched, and that's when he [Franklin] pulled the firearm he had in his possession and began shooting at the victim, but he did not recall how many times he discharged his firearm," the affidavit says.
Franklin left the scene and returned to his home in Baton Rouge before turning himself in to Baker police.