BATON ROUGE - Four people, including two juveniles, were indicted by a grand jury on murder charges related to the killing of David Atkins, an 18-year-old who escaped from a juvenile detention facility and was killed Feb. 10. 

Both 19-year-old Travelle Burris and 18-year-old Treylen Williams were indicted for second-degree murder, armed robbery and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Mark Burris and Jason Sheppard, both 17, were formally charged with first-degree murder. 

David Atkins, an accused murderer, had been on the run for a little more than two months after escaping from the East Baton Rouge Parish Juvenile Detention Facility at the end of November — his second time breaking out of the detention center. 

According to arrest paperwork from BRPD, Travelle Burris and two others went to a home along Washington Avenue on Feb. 10 and attempted to rob Atkins of a rifle. Due to redactions in the document, it is unclear who accompanied Burris to the house. The affidavit said the group attacked Atkins and multiple people shot him before they ran away from the home. 

According to parish records, Travelle Burris was on probation when the shooting happened. He was arrested in September 2023 for holding a girl at gunpoint in a hotel room before demanding her car keys and stealing her vehicle. Burris was arrested for armed robbery but pleaded guilty to simple robbery and was sentenced to three years of probation.