Scotlandville - School fight leads to off campus shooting

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BATON ROUGE — A fight broken up at Scotlandville High Monday led to a shooting on Fairchild Street that afternoon, according to police.

A 15-year-old who broke up the fight and “choked out” one of the fighters at school was accosted that afternoon as he and two younger friends walked to the store, an arrest warrant said.

Two people in black hoodies and ski masks confronted him on Fairchild near Elm Grove Garden Drive. He was shot in the arm. His friends, who were 13 and 14, were not injured.

The teen who got “choked out” has been arrested in the shooting.

Byron Martin Jr., 17, was booked Tuesday with attempted first-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon.

Martin’s arrest warrant said he and another student fought at school Monday. The 15-year-old stepped in to pull Martin off the other student involved in the fight, the warrant said.

“Martin was choked out by the victim as he was being subdued,” the warrant said.

Both students were suspended and sent home early, the warrant said.

After investigators identified Martin as the suspected shooter, they searched his home on Flicker Street on Tuesday and found a box of 9mm bullets in a “hidden compartment” in his bedroom closet, the warrant said.

They also found a loaded magazine in his backpack and a black hoodie and ski mask in a vehicle parked behind the house, the warrant said.

No gun was found during the search, the warrant said.

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