Shotgun blasts killed a Baton Rouge couple as they slept inside their Tigerland apartment nearly five years ago.

On Thursday afternoon, inside a Baton Rouge courtroom packed with family members wearing T-shirts adorned with pictures of the two victims, a judge sentenced the man convicted in their deaths to two life sentences.

Brian Alexander Lavergne, 38, shot and killed LaQuincia Jackson, his 26-year-old ex-girlfriend, and her boyfriend of five years, 33-year-old Fredrick Hollins. He used a 12-gauge shotgun to shoot both at point-blank range as they slept in their apartment in the 4600 block of Earl Gros Avenue the evening of Jan. 23, 2021.

He was tried on two counts of second-degree murder in October 2024, but a hung jury was unable to reach a verdict and the presiding judge de

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