A Baton Rouge resident was arrested Wednesday in connection with the fatal shooting of a 40-year-old man in September 2024 as the victim stood with his family outside the AM Mart on Highland Road.

Jalyn Washington, 22, was arrested around 8 p.m. Wednesday only a few blocks from where Donald Trim was shot and killed last year, according to police.

Washington originally was arrested on a felony count of possession of a machine gun, but was then booked into the parish prison on a count of second-degree murder.

Trim was standing with members of his family outside the AM Mart early in the morning on Sept. 7, 2024, when a man now believed to be Washington opened fire on the group, according to a release from the Baton Rouge Police Department.

Only Trim was struck in the gunfire, and he died

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