Calvin Ervin, a 46-year-old Black man from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was killed by gunfire on the night of February 12, 2011. The shooting unfolded outdoors at the Pine Crest Apartments along Mohican-Prescott Crossover, where police were called around 8:30 p.m. When officers arrived, they found Ervin dead in a grassy area in front of the complex.
Another man, Brandon Watson, was also found shot to death at the same scene.
Both deaths were treated as a homicide investigation centered on the apartment property and the stretch of Mohican-Prescott Crossover in front of it, as detectives worked to piece together what happened in those moments before the shots were fired.
Publicly available reports connected to Ervin’s death do not describe a suspect by name or provide a confirmed motive, and they do not show an arrest announcement tied to the killing. The case details that surfaced publicly focused on the location, the timing, and the discovery of the victims, while investigators continued pursuing leads behind the scenes.
In the years since that Saturday night, the story that remains in the public record is stark: a late-evening burst of violence outside a neighborhood apartment complex, two men left dead in the open, and no publicly identified person brought forward as the one responsible—at least not in sources that document the incident.
