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Baton Rouge sees record number of homicides in 2020 2020 was a record year for homicides in Baton Rouge By Austin Kemker | January 5, 2021 at 3:35 PM CST - Updated January 7 at 5:53 AM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A record number of people were lost to violence last year with 136 homicides in EBR Parish and 100 in Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul says the pandemic likely played a part in the spike. “We ended the year with a 42, 43% increase in homicides compared to our previous years,” Paul said. “So we had two years of successful decreases, not just in violence but in crime, so what was different? The pandemic.” ....