Baton Rouge police said Saturday (Sept. 29) that a pair of eyeglasses found where LSU basketball player Wayde Sims was fatally wounded led investigators to arrest Dyteon Simpson, 20, of Baker on a charge of second-degree murder. It was Simpson's DNA on the glasses, they said.
Sims, a 20-year-old junior forward from Baton Rouge, was fatally wounded early Friday in the 600 block of Harding Boulevard near Southern University. Police Chief Murphy Paul said Sims had stepped in to defend a friend fighting with Simpson before Simpson shot him.
Glasses were left on the scene, and the Louisiana State Police crime laboratory discovered they belonged to Simpson, authorities said.