Noel McClinton was 35 when he was shot and killed on the evening of January 27, 2018, in Poughkeepsie, New York. The shooting happened in front of the Fireman’s Exempt Social Club on Mansion Street; initial investigators say a male suspect fled the scene.

Local police led the early probe, later joined by the FBI’s Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force and the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force. Authorities pursued a man they believed had left the area for North Carolina and conducted multiple attempts to locate him there. The search ended in October when 38-year-old Robert Whitaker surrendered to Poughkeepsie police with his lawyer. He was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and remanded to the Dutchess County Jail.

If anyone saw activity outside the Fireman’s Exempt Social Club that night or has information about McClinton’s final hours, please share what is known.