In the quiet, pre-dawn hours of a Baton Rouge Sunday, a car sat silently in a ditch off of Kaufman Street, its journey abruptly ended. Inside, authorities would find 22-year-old Laterika Taylor, her life taken by gunfire on May 23, 2021. The discovery, made around 2:15 a.m., marked the beginning of a story of loss for a young family and a community, and a search for answers that has so far proven elusive. An African American female, Laterika was a mother of three young children, with a fourth on
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