BATON ROUGE — Just hours after celebrating a hard-won milestone, 29-year-old Andrew McMullen was gone.
On Friday night, Dec. 26th, just after 10 p.m., McMullen was riding his electric scooter near the RaceTrac gas station on Perkins Road and Staring Lane when a car hit him, Baton Rouge Police said. He suffered severe brain trauma and died at the hospital around 11:30 p.m. His father, Michael McMullen, and Andrew’s oldest brother, Jacob, were at his bedside when he passed.
“I want to know why my son is dead,” he said quietly.
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