Darrious West, a 20-year-old Black man from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, died on Saturday, March 18, 2017, with his death recorded at 9:18 p.m.
In the wake of that night, the public record that remains easiest to trace is the quiet trail left by family and funeral notices: visitation and services were announced for early April at Bible World Christian Center, with arrangements handled through Wilson-Wooddale Funeral Home in Baton Rouge.
Online memorial listings tie his death to gun violence, pointing to a Baton Rouge Police Department homicide investigation connected to a fatal shooting on Tuscarora Street. Those entries underscore how little else was shared publicly about what led to the killing—no detailed narrative of the moments before the gunfire, no confirmed motive released in the easily accessible sources, and no publicly named person clearly identified as responsible in the materials that remain available.
As for the question everyone asks first—who did it, and did police catch them—none of the accessible public sources reviewed for this synopsis document an arrest, a named suspect, filed charges, a trial, or a conviction connected to Darrious West’s death. In the absence of those milestones, the story that can be told from what’s still visible online is one of a young man lost on March 18, 2017, and a case that—at least in the surviving, easily verifiable public footprint—does not show a clear resolution.
