Deputies looking for driver after stolen truck hits Baton Rouge home
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office is searching for the driver of a stolen truck that struck a home in Baton Rouge early Monday morning.
The truck hit a home on the corner of Shadybrook Drive and Woodwick Avenue around 2:20 a.m. May 13, according to resident Bruno Paquot.
EBRSO said a deputy spotted a possibly intoxicated driver in a red Dodge pickup truck reported stolen through the Baton Rouge Police Department swerving on the road at 2:15 a.m. A traffic stop was initiated but the driver did not stop.
Deputies said the truck hit a home after failing to turn or stop.
Paquot was in the home along with his wife and daughter when he said he heard a “loud noise akin to an explosion.” He said the front of the house was flooded with blue lights and loud sirens.
Paquot and his wife stepped outside and saw that the truck hit the right corner of their home. He said that a deputy asked them to go back inside the house because the driver of the stolen truck had fled on foot.
A deputy and K9 searched the area but couldn’t find the driver after they were last seen headed north on Shadybrook Drive, according to the sheriff’s office.
There were no reported injuries.
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EBRSO described the driver as a “male wearing a black hoodie, pulled over his head and black pants.”
The Baton Rouge resident said the incident left his daughter “pretty shaken up” and they are still in the process of assessing the damage. Paquot said that bricks were knocked loose, leaving a gaping hole and exposing “the outside wooden frame of the house.”
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