Baton Rouge
Arrest in race murders: A 23-year-old white man was arrested this week and accused of a string of attacks that investigators say were racially motivated, including the killing of two black men and a shooting at a black family’s home. Authorities allege that in separate incidents this month, Kenneth James Gleason murdered a homeless black man and a black dishwasher who was walking to work; both times, Gleason allegedly shot the men from his vehicle, then stood over the victims and shot them several more times. He is also accused of firing into the home of a black family who lived down the street from his house. Police said they found a handwritten copy of an Adolf Hitler speech at Gleason’s home, and that surveillance footage and DNA on a shell casing linked him to the crimes. “This killer would have killed again,” said Baton Rouge Police Chief Jonny Dunnam.