BATON ROUGE- Data compiled by the Crime Strategies Unit and released during a presentation to the Baton Rouge Rotary Wednesday afternoon indicates that people are more likely to be shot or killed in the capital city on a Tuesday.

Tuesday of this week proved to be particularly violent with three shootings that left four injured. It started around 8:30 in the morning when investigators said David Reed shot a customer at the Circle K on Florida Boulevard. Then, detectives believe he shot another man on Convention Street after an occupant in the car he was in said he went on a "crack-induced binge." Later in the afternoon, two people were shot on Shelley Street in an unrelated shooting.

District Attorney Hillar Moore was the keynote speaker and delivered the statistics through a power point presentation.

"We've been seeing this for the past year or so, where Tuesdays for whatever day is a hot day," District Attorney Hillar Moore said. "We're not sure why. Sundays also picked up."

In addition to Tuesdays being problematic, so far, 70802 is the most dangerous zip code in the capital city with 15 homicides. That surpasses all of the other zip codes in the city so far. In recent years, 70805 was targeted by the BRAVE team, which was a crime-fighting initiative that no longer exists.

"They were always neck and neck and now 02 has popped up last year," Moore said. "This year, it's always been there neck and neck, but obviously we need to concentrate more there."

Despite the sobering stats, promising strides are being made by law enforcement. The overall murder rate this year is down compared to 2017's record-breaking year. The overall solve rate of murders in our city is 61-percent which is above the national average of a little more than a half.

"The main thing we are seeing is shots fired are down, and we believe that's from police and sheriff's doing their job," Moore said. "Us getting guns off the street when shots fired are down, murders are down."

ST. JOHN PARISH - A Baton Rouge man has been arrested in connection with a crash that left another native dead back in June.

State police announced 50-year-old Ivan Johnson was arrested in Livingston Parish Wednesday after DNA evidence revealed that Johnson was driving at the time of the crash, contradicting his original account of the incident. Medical records also revealed his blood-alcohol content was over the legal limit at the time of the crash.

Police say the truck was traveling at high speeds along I-10 in St. John the Baptist Parish when the driver lost control, causing the vehicle to flip several times. LSP said 59-year-old Anthony Lewis of Baton Rouge was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.

Two other people, identified as Ivan Johnson and Carlos Moore were inside the vehicle at the time and were hospitalized with moderate injuries. Investigators had been working to determine the exact seating of the occupants since June 9, the night of the crash.

Johnson was arrested Wednesday and will be charged with vehicular homicide, obstruction of justice, reckless operation of a motor vehicle and speeding.