A grueling murder retrial ended this week with a Baton Rouge man being convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and the woman’s new lover with a shotgun inside the couple’s Tigerland apartment 4½ years ago.
A jury of nine men and five women found Brian Alexander Lavergne guilty Monday night on two counts of second-degree murder following four days of testimony and about 2½ hours of deliberations.
According to the verdict, Lavergne shot and killed LaQuincia Jackson, his 26-year-old ex-girlfriend, and her boyfriend of five years, 33-year-old Fredrick Hollins. Prosecutors said he killed the couple as they slept in their apartment in the 4600 block of Earl Gros Avenue the evening of Jan. 23, 2021, using a 12-gauge shotgun to shoot them at point-blank range…