Man killed in Saturday shooting was breaking up fight between teens, family says

BATON ROUGE – The family of 49-year-old Randall Holmes, the man killed Saturday afternoon after a fight between teens escalated to violence, shared with WBRZ that Holmes attempted to intervene in the fight that ultimately led to his death.

“He was a gentle giant, a humble person,” Nadia Holmes, Randall Holmes’ wife, said. “He went to defuse the situation.”

On Monday, latex gloves, wound kits and gauze littered the corner of Osceola and Calumet Street — remnants of Saturday’s shooting, which took Holmes’ life…

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