Kayelyn Ford, a 22-year-old Black/African American woman, was killed in the early hours of May 19, 2025, outside the Tanglewood Apartments on Hooper Road in Baton Rouge. Moments before the shooting, she had called the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, reporting that her ex-boyfriend, Brandon Bell, was trying to get into her apartment with an old key. Deputies searched the apartment, found no one, and Ford told them she and a friend would go elsewhere for the night. After deputies left, Bell e
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