50 years later, questions linger over the death of a Baton Rouge man during an FBI arrest

Published: July 16, 2023

By: Myracle Lewis, Amelia Gabor and Birdie O’Connell LSU Manship School News Service

On a hot, quiet morning in July 1973, 21-year-old Milton Scott heard a loud knock on the front door of his Baton Rouge home.

Scott was lying in bed with his pregnant wife, now Beverly Shabazz, and their 2-year-old daughter, Andrea. He felt uneasy about a bloody nightmare he’d had that night.

“I had to do everything I could do to calm him down, to let him know that he was just having a bad dream,” Shabazz said before releasing a loud sigh.

But the unconscious terror would soon become reality.

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