It's trending in that direction.

I lived in that area for 11 years. The gas station where the shooting took place was the one my wife and I always used. In the latter part of my time living in the area hearing gunshots at night was not a terribly uncommon occurrence (mostly from Siegen Ln and generally about one episode a week)

The neighborhood behind the gas station, Jefferson Terrance (and other newer neighborhoods) are fine. But, like most things in BR where zoning is a four letter word, the apartments surrounding the neighborhoods are getting worse and worse. Eventually people in the nice neighborhoods in the area will become tired of living ghetto-adjacent and move. Once that occurs the collapse will be inevitable. It won't happen over night, but shootings/crime on Siegen coupled with (now) a shooting at a gas station most folks in the area use will hasten that process.

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Posted by TigersSEC2010

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Posted on 4/22/24 at 9:12 am to Alt26

Jefferson/Bluebonnet is fine. There are a few shitbirds in those apartments on Rue de Belle Maison and near the Jefferson/Floynell intersection, but for the most part it's about as safe as can be in Baton Rouge. That gas station is a sore spot in an otherwise strong area, as they had the attempted carjacking there a few months ago.

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Posted by Lsupimp

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Posted on 4/22/24 at 9:21 am to Alt26

I live in the area way in the back. The entire Jefferson corridor has held up extremely well. It’s centrally located and there are beautiful lots and parks. But anywhere there are little pockets of apartments something can happen. And Baton Rouge is a majority black city so we are going to have murder beefs playing out until the end of time wherever they feel they can take someone by surprise.

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