UPDATE:
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The suspect is being held without bond.
ORIGINAL STORY:
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A 20-year-old man faces two counts of first-degree murder in connection to the deaths of a woman and her young son.
On Friday, March 11 at 2:40 p.m., BRPD officers were dispatched to Old Hammond Hwy regarding a missing person complaint. The missing person, 24-year-old Kaylen Johnson, and her two-year-old son Kayden Johnson had not been seen or heard from since Saturday, March 5, according to police.
The family was able to perform a wellness check at Kaylen’s home where there were no signs of foul play and continued to try to call her phone, however, it was disconnected, according to an affidavit.
Police said Kaylen’s vehicle was later found parked with the license plate removed.
On Monday, March 14 at 4:30 a.m., Kaylen’s boyfriend, 20-year-old Brynnen Murphy, went to the police and led detectives to the victims’ bodies after having denied any knowledge of Kaylen’s whereabouts days earlier, according to arrest documents.
Photo courtesy of the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Murphy was booked into EBR Prison on two counts of first-degree murder.
The investigation is ongoing.
