"Taxpayers paid for Baton Rouge man awaiting murder trial to talk gun safety with kids"

New story on the Advocate this morning regarding the Broome Misadministration. Unfortunately not the Sadvocate and not the Bee.

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Edit to add story:
A taxpayer-funded Baton Rouge nonprofit that is now part of a massive corruption investigation paid for a man awaiting trial on a murder charge to speak to children about gun safety and violence, city-parish records show.

As part of then-Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome’s Safe, Hopeful, Healthy campaign, the mayor’s healthy city nonprofit paid to have Marvin Payne, 36, speak to children about gun safety alongside Baton Rouge Constable Terrica Williams in June 2022.
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At the time, court records show Payne — who also goes by “Madd Marvin” — had bonded out of the parish prison weeks earlier and was awaiting trial for second-degree murder. Deputies identified him as a member of a Zion City gang called the “5400 Boys.”

Payne has a lengthy arrest record.

He was previously charged with attempted first-degree murder in 2008. That count was later reduced to dangerous use of a weapon and he was sentenced to probation.

In 2017, he was arrested on a count of illegal use of a weapon by a felon. The case was dismissed two years later.

In 2023, as he awaited trial for the second-degree murder charge, Payne was arrested on charges of operating a clandestine drug lab, possession of cocaine and possession of fentanyl, court records show. That case is still active with a motion hearing scheduled for next month.