Marcus Clay was 45 when a dispute in Baton Rouge ended his life in the spring of 2018. On the evening of May 20, Clay was found in the 1800 block of North Harco Drive with gunshot wounds and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died from his injuries.

Investigators from the Baton Rouge Police Department treated the shooting as the result of an altercation and identified a suspect, 45-year-old Lionel Porter. Community tips to Crime Stoppers helped locate Porter, and he was arrested in West Feliciana Parish on the morning of June 1. He was to be booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with Clay’s death.

If anyone witnessed the May 20 incident on North Harco Drive or has information about the altercation, please share what is known.