BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A Baton Rouge woman has been arrested in connection with the death of another woman following an attack earlier this summer, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department.

The arrest documents show that Deja Jannae Shanice Jones, 28, was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on September 12, 2025. She faces a felony count of manslaughter in the death of Chasonda Moore.

On July 27, 2025, officers responded to Paige Street for a reported battery. They found Moore with visible injuries to her face, mouth, and side, but she denied medical evaluation at the scene, according to the affidavit.

Just a short time later, police were called back to Moore’s residence, where she was found unresponsive. She was taken to the hospital with a severe brain bleed and pl

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