BATON ROUGE - 17-year-old Micah Booker was killed in a deadly shooting over the weekend at an apartment complex near Southern University.

Booker's mother, Fonda Booker, says he was invited to a gathering at the Cadence apartment complex by a friend the night he was killed.

"It's a nightmare, I woke up to a nightmare," Booker said.

Booker says her son Micah was supposed to go to work Saturday night, but chose to hang out with a friend instead. She says they dropped him off at a friend's house, and at some point, they all went by another friend who lived at the Cadence apartment complex.

"I don't know how he got there, but he and his friends were there, all I know then is some kind of shooting broke out and my son got hit," Booker said.

Booker says she got the call around 10:30 that n

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