In the quiet hours of Christmas Eve morning in 2019, tragedy struck a Baton Rouge household. A male teenager, 17-year-old Gervonte Taplin, was shot and killed in what authorities described as a targeted home invasion. The incident occurred around 5 a.m. on Turret Drive in the Millerville area, a time when the city was still cloaked in pre-dawn stillness. The assailant entered the home and went directly to the bedroom where Taplin and his 10-year-old brother were.
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