SHREVEPORT, La. — Jurors in Shreveport took under an hour on Wednesday, Oct. 28, to convict 29-year-old Kenavion Marquis Baker of second-degree murder in the July 5, 2023, death of Terry Morris, who was 20.
The panel of nine also convicted Baker of armed robbery and of illegally having a gun, since he already had a felony record, the Caddo District Attorney’s Office said. That earlier conviction was for aggravated flight from an officer, which barred him from owning any firearm.
As prosecutors described it, Morris and a friend drove to the north Shreveport house where Baker lived because Baker had agreed to fix Morris’ car. Not long after the pair showed up, Baker shot Morris in the head. He then pointed the gun at the friend, took his phone, and forced him to help roll the body in a blanket and place it inside the car.
Someone on a call with Morris at that moment heard the friend begging for his life, and that listener later testified as what prosecutors called an earwitness. Baker eventually drove the friend home before taking off toward Natchitoches in the dead man’s car.
Officers followed the car using cellphone data. Baker led them on a fast chase across the state line that ended in San Augustine, Texas, where he wrecked and ran off into a stand of trees. He was found and arrested a day later. Morris’ body was still in the damaged car, and the weapon turned up close by.
Along with the eyewitness and the earwitness, the jury heard from Shreveport police detectives, a forensic pathologist, a DNA analyst and a firearms specialist.
Baker returns to court for sentencing on Nov. 5. State law requires a life term with no parole on the murder count. The robbery count carries 10 to 99 years plus five more for using a gun, and the weapons count carries five to 20 years.
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