Baton Rouge Police Seek Answers in Death of Businessman on Trip [Video]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW!

• Derrick Perkins, a person of interest, is wanted for questioning in connection to the death of Nathan Millard, a Georgia man who went missing in Baton Rouge on a business trip before being found dead in a vacant lot.
• Millard’s cause of death is pending toxicology results, but investigators suspect it was an accidental overdose with attempts made to hide his body.
• Police do not suspect foul play in Millard’s death, but the investigation is ongoing.

Baton Rouge police have named Derrick Perkins as a person of interest in the death of Nathan Millard, a Georgia man who disappeared while on a business trip in Baton Rouge and was later found dead in a vacant lot.

Perkins is wanted for probation violation, criminal damage to property, access device fraud, and unauthorized use of a vehicle. Authorities are seeking to question him in connection to the Millard case.

On February 23, Millard went missing after leaving Happy’s Irish Pub in downtown Baton Rouge. His body was found a week later rolled up in a carpet in a vacant lot on Scenic Highway. The East Baton Rouge Parish coroner found “[n]o evidence of internal or external trauma” in Millard’s death, and the cause is pending toxicology results.

Investigators believe that Millard died of an accidental overdose with attempts made to hide his body. Police do not suspect foul play in his death, but the investigation is ongoing.

Millard was a married father of five and director at a construction firm. He had been in Baton Rouge to meet with a client at an LSU game before heading to Happy’s Irish Pub. He left the pub at around 11:30 pm to return to his hotel room but never made it back. Millard’s high school friend, Matt Still, previously told Fox News Digital that he was “a really good guy, a family man” and that his death was “very tragic.”

The Baton Rouge Police Department has not released any further information relating to Millard’s disappearance and death. However, they have urged anyone with information about the case to come forward.

In a statement, BRPD Sgt. L’Jean McKneely clarified that the department’s previous statement about not suspecting foul play was in reference to the cause of Millard’s death, not the entire incident. “He didn’t die from blunt force trauma, he didn’t die from stabbing, and he didn’t die from shooting,” McKneely said.

Source: news.yahoo.com