January on track to be the deadliest in BR since record-keeping began 2 months 2 weeks 5 days ago Friday, January 22 2021 Jan 22, 2021 January 22, 2021 6:00 AM January 22, 2021 in News Source: WBRZ Share: BATON ROUGE- East Baton Rouge Parish is on track to have the deadliest January on record in 2021 with 10 days left to go this month. The deadly January comes after a violent 2020 where Baton Rouge broke records for the most murders ever. As of January 21, the new year was not off to a good start; Already, there have been 12 homicides in the parish as of Thursday. The only other time there were this many homicides was in January of 2013. There were 12 for the entire month in 2013, making this month tied with the deadliest.