National Guardsman Matthew Trahan killed in Baton Rouge

La. guardsman shot, killed in car

The Associated Press
Posted : Friday May 2, 2008 11:54:59 EDT

BATON ROUGE, La. — An off-duty National Guardsman who was within weeks of departure for Thailand and, eventually, Iraq, was shot and killed in Baton Rouge. A man accused in his murder was arrested Thursday.

Larry Murray, 18, of Baton Rouge, turned himself in to Zachary police Thursday night and was being charged in the first-degree murder of Matthew Trahan, 20, said Sgt. Don Kelly, a Baton Rouge police spokesman.

Trahan was shot Wednesday night in a run-down North Baton Rouge neighborhood five blocks from an Exxon refinery. Baton Rouge police said he was from Lafayette, about 60 miles west of Baton Rouge; relatives said he was from Scott, a suburb of Lafayette.

“Trahan had apparently given the suspect Murray a ride and, at some point, investigators believe Murray shot Trahan and then robbed him of cash,” Kelly wrote in a news release.

Police had a warrant for Murray’s arrest within hours.
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