Family dead woman in the apartment wants to answer | Crime/police

The last time Shaquinna Scott's mother saw her, she was with a family at the end of March.

Three weeks later, the body of Scott-Einer 34-year-old mother was found by four children in an abandoned apartment complex on Monet Drive in the Melrose East district.

According to the Coroner Coroner of the East Baton Rouge, her body was in a state of deep expiration. At that time, the police said she believed that Scott was homeless.

The case is examined as a murder, but no official cause of death was released. According to the forensic doctor's office, more forensic studies are carried out and the final results could take months.

In the meantime, members of Scott's family say that they are looking for justice and hope that they will not forget.

“I want you not only to throw her aside because you thought she was homeless,” said Shaquinnta's mother Charmaine Scott.

A spokesman for the Baton Rouge police authority said the case was not ignored. The department encourages everyone to contact the police with information on Scotts Murder.

Scott said her daughter had suffered from drug addiction in recent years. She had always lived with various relatives, but always had a family that she loved and took care of her. “

Shatara Williams, a friend from childhood, said Scott had made a priority in contact with her children, even after giving up custody of friends and family.

Her eldest son completed the high school this month. Williams said Scott hadn't missed the event.

“This love for her children has never changed,” she said. “I don't care what kind of drug you were. Your love for her children has never changed.”

Charmaine Scott said she last saw her daughter during a family meeting on March 30th. A post on Scott's Instagram account of April 4 shows that she sings and plays guitar.

Body found

John Shields, a maintenance technology to instruct the doors and windows of many abandoned buildings by Melrose East, said he found Scott's body.

He says part of his job is a feger of every building to see if someone is inside.

On the morning of April 21st, Shields and his team were commissioned to replace plywood boards that blocked the entrances to an abandoned two -story apartment complex and leasing office in the 700 block of the Monet Drive.

While he did not give too much details in the state of the room on the second floor, Scott was found, he said that the decomposition was old.

The police estimated that she was dead for two or three weeks before she was found.

Shields also said the windows in the room were blocked with quilts.

According to Shantae Johnson, the building, the complex real estate manager of the complex, the building had been abandoned for years.

Johnson remembered scott in the area a few times and said she was friendly and apologetically asked when she was asked to leave a building.

Even when the tenants still lived in the apartments, the building was plagued by black mold, wild cats and water interruptions, says Johnson. After two years she left business in 2024.

The owner of the property, Baton Rouge Multi-Family Holding LLC, also has several other abandoned apartments in Melrose East. Johnson said that the company originally had plans to renovate the buildings, but many never became worth living.

The records of the assessor and sheriff's office show that the property is in the decision. This means that the sheriff's office confiscated it due to the unpaid property taxes of 2022.

Attempts to reach the officer for Baton Rouge Multi-Family Holding LLC about the building in which Scott's body was found.

Calls were made to 311 to report Blight and empty there. Police reports in the past five years have also been showing a crime pattern in the building, including theft, narcotics and assault.

Will Belton, a board member of Melrose East Crime Prevention District, who pays for security in the region, said, abandoned buildings create environments in which crime flourishes.

“Then it will be a question: What do we do as the district of crime prevention?” he said.

With regard to Scott's family, they are still worried about the lack of obvious answers about what happened.

“She was a very beautiful person who loved everyone and took care of everyone,” said Charmaine Scott about her daughter. “She would not harm anyone, and I just don't understand why someone wants to harm her.”