Jerrid Michael Davis Jr., 22, was fatally shot in Baton Rouge on January 24, 2017. Officers found him around 3 p.m. in the 11800 block of Old Hammond Highway, lying in the roadway with a gunshot wound to his abdomen. He was taken to a local hospital and later died of his injuries.

Known to family as Lil Jerrid, he was a son, father, brother, friend, an aspiring rap artist and a welding student at Baton Rouge Community College. Authorities said the shooting followed an argument and, in the days after the homicide, identified a suspect. Mervell Carter, 24 at the time, was arrested the Thursday after the shooting and was to be booked on a charge of second-degree murder.

If anyone has information about Jerrid Davis, his last movements, or the events on Old Hammond Highway that day, please come forward.