BATON ROUGE - A mother is searching for answers after her son was found beaten and shot in Baton Rouge last week.

"He gave me a hug and a kiss Thursday night about 11:30. I would've never thought that he would be dead," Lori Patterson said.

Lori Patterson says her daughter received a call on Friday that her son, Darrell McBride, had died.

"Some guy called my daughter's phone and said that he was dead over there in Scotlandville, and to come quick, when she got over there, no Darrell," Patterson said.

According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, Darrell McBride was shot and beaten on Lorraine Street on Friday evening.

He was taken to the hospital, where he died from the gunshot wound.

"He was over there with so-called friends, I told him they weren't none of his friends, but he be

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