BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB)- Baton Rouge Police are investigating the shooting death of a man found behind a home on Brice Street.

BRPD spokesman Cpl. L'Jean Mckneely said 24-year-old Raymond Louis Sowell was killed around 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. He said detectives are working to identify a suspect and motive for the shooting. 

The home is located at 344 Brice Street between Louisiana Avenue and Spain Street, two blocks off Government Street.

If you have any information about this shooting, call Crime Stoppers at 344-STOP. You can remain anonymous.

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Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden, District Attorney Hillar Moore, Sheriff Sid Gautreaux and Police Chief Dewayne White announced Wednesday that they are teaming up with juvenile services, probation and parole, social agencies, LSU and the faith-based community to launch a new program to curb violence in East Baton Rouge Parish.

The new Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination Project will target known violent and drug-trade offenders in criminal hotspots, beginning with zip code 70805 in North Baton Rouge. 

A roughly three-mile square area, zip code 70805  has 13.5 percent of the city’s population, but accounts for 25 percent of its total police calls, 30 percent of its homicides, and 40 percent of its gun assaults.

“We are seeking to attack violence and the drug trade in zip code 70805 the same way that a medical team would attack an epidemic of influenza or some other disease,” Mayor Holden said.