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The Latest: Suspect in shootout was Southern football player

Associated Press
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BATON ROUGE, La. – The Latest on a Baton Rouge shooting that killed two 19-year-old women who were Southern University students and members of the school's athletics program (all times local):

9 a.m.

A man suspected of initiating a shootout that killed two 19-year-old Southern University students outside a Baton Rouge apartment complex was a member of the school's football team in 2012.

Assistant athletics director Christopher Jones said the suspect in Sunday's shooting — 22-year-old Ernest Bernard Felton, of Miami — never played in a game for Southern and wasn't brought back to the team following its 2012 season.

Police arrested Felton on charges of attempted second-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon in the shooting of a 24-year-old man who was at a hospital with wounds that aren't considered life-threatening. Police said Felton and the 24-year-old man exchanged gunfire, but a witness told investigators that Felton initiated the shooting.

Investigators were awaiting results of ballistic analysis to determine who's responsible for fatally shooting Lashuntae Benton, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Annette January, of Gary, Indiana.

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6:45 a.m.

Police and university officials say two 19-year-old women who were Southern University students and members of the school's athletic program were killed during a shootout outside a Baton Rouge apartment complex.

Police arrested one of two men suspected in the Sunday morning shooting. Twenty-two-year-old Ernest Bernard Felton is facing charges of attempted second-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon in the shooting of a 24-year-old man who was at a hospital with wounds that aren't considered life-threatening.

Police say investigators were awaiting results of ballistic analysis to determine who's responsible for fatally shooting Lashuntae Benton, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Annette January, of Gary, Indiana.

Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Coppola Jr. said in a statement that Benton and January were shot around 2 a.m. during a shootout between Felton and the man who was shot.