Convicted killer Ryan Joseph Sharpe’s second murder trial in two years began this week inside a Baton Rouge courtroom.

Sharpe, 44, stands accused of shooting and killing Carroll Breeden Sr., a 66-year-old BREC commissioner, as Breeden was doing yard work outside his Port Hudson-Pride Road home in September 2017.

Breeden’s killing came during a spree of random 2017 shootings in East Feliciana and East Baton Rouge parishes that investigators tied to Sharpe.

In August 2024, an East Feliciana jury unanimously found Sharpe guilty of second-degree murder for killing 48-year-old Boy Scout leader Brad DeFranceschi in October 2017. He shot the father of two in broad daylight as DeFranceschi was trimming weeds outside his house on the Avondale Scout Reservation along La. 63. A judge sentenced Sha

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