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The 23-year-old Baton Rouge native never made it. A string of vehicles, led by a man trying to evade Livingston Parish Sheriff's detectives and other law enforcement, came flying down the road from Walker, crashing into Scott's car, killing him. Scott, the youngest of four children, the uncle to nieces and nephews, the "joy to have as a son" as his father said, died in a hospital soon after the crash. "He was love and laughter. He was life," his stepmother, Rosalyn Scott, said in an interview Thursday from her Baton Rouge home. "He knew how to love and respect his family."Her husband, the Rev. Robert Scott Jr., started to laugh, recalling how his son would always smack him on the behind. Then the pastor, recalling how his son had always called him 'Pops,' turned sober."It shouldn't have happened," said Scott, pastor of Nathaniel Baptist Church in Centreville, Mississippi. "My son should still be living right now; I shouldn't be preparing a funeral, I shouldn't be burying my son."Can't see the video below? Click here. As the Scotts tried to focus on memorializing their son, they couldn't help but question how authorities handled the chase, how the pursuit continued until it turned deadly. "We're not just angry about this one individual who had all this trouble in his past," Rosalyn Scott said. "When do you pull back and say the community is more important than this one person (who they) will capture eventually?"Reginald Weeden, 30, the man authorities chased after he fled narcotics detectives who had approached him in Walker, was convicted of manslaughter in 2005 and was out on bail, awaiting criminal proceedings from an Aug. 11 arrest on drug counts.A Tuesday night drug investigation by Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office in Walker that tran…The detectives, from the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office, followed Weeden for about 10 miles, with Denham Springs Police joining the pursuit, until the crash in Baton Rouge, said Livingston Sheriff's spoke... (The Advocate)