Shotgun blasts killed a Baton Rouge couple as they slept inside their Tigerland apartment nearly five years ago.
On Thursday afternoon, inside a Baton Rouge courtroom packed with family members wearing T-shirts adorned with pictures of the two victims, a judge sentenced the man convicted in their deaths to two life sentences.
Brian Alexander Lavergne, 38, shot and killed LaQuincia Jackson, his 26-year-old ex-girlfriend, and her boyfriend of five years, 33-year-old Fredrick Hollins. He used a 12-gauge shotgun to shoot both at point-blank range as they slept in their apartment in the 4600 block of Earl Gros Avenue the evening of Jan. 23, 2021…