LAPLACE — A Baton Rouge man was shot to death following a Friday night shooting in LaPlace. 

According to the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office, the shooting occurred around 9:30 p.m. near Williamsburg Drive and Bedford Drive.

Deputies arrived on the scene to find Jackie Dempsey of Baton Rouge suffering from a single gunshot wound in the driver's seat of a vehicle. He was pronounced dead on the scene. 

Deputies said the early stages of the investigation show that this was a targeted attack.