East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux would not comment on a possible motive or say whether Sharpe, also a white man, knew the victims.Īsked by a reporter if Sharpe was a “serial killer,” Gautreaux said, “No, but I mean it could be categorized as anything, really.
His alleged victims include a Brad DeFranceschi, a 48-year-old Scouts employee who was shot and killed Monday while he trimmed weeds in front of his house on Boy Scouts camp property in Clinton.ĭeFranceschi was the fourth middle-aged or older white man to be shot at their homes or on their property since July.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether he had an attorney. Sharpe was jailed in Baton Rouge on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder. A plumbing company owner is accused of killing three men and shooting a fourth in a string of attacks that began in July in a rural area north of Baton Rouge and ended this week with the death of a Boy Scouts employee.Īuthorities announced the arrest of Ryan Sharpe, 36, of Clinton, at a news conference late Wednesday. Suspect killed exotic dancer 'in cold blood' after waiting for 5 hours: prosecutorsīATON ROUGE, La. woman charged in friend's hammer death over forged checksĮliza Fletcher autopsy report reveals gruesome cause of death Teen girl witnessed fugitive father kill her mother in California: police