‘They have alcohol and guns, that’s it:’ Victim’s family calls for closure of after-hours clubs

BATON ROUGE – The family of a man killed outside an after-hours club on Saturday morning called for the closure of those types of establishments in Baton Rouge.

Demarcus Variste died at 27-years-old in a shooting outside an after-hours club called “Lil Blue House,” near Plank Road. BRPD officers responded to the shooting around 5:40 on Saturday morning.

Demarcus Variste’s aunt, Rhonda Variste, said she had met her nephew at the site because she was worried he would get hurt. Rhonda Variste said she left around 4 a.m. because she thought Demarcus Variste left the site…

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