On the evening of December 23, 2016, in Baton Rouge, 43-year-old Charles Porter was found lying in the road in the 500 block of Education Street with a fatal gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. A native and resident of Baton Rouge, he was known to many friends as Chicago.

The investigation identified a suspect and an arrest was made. Thirty-three-year-old Johnny Matthews was taken into custody by the Baton Rouge Police Department and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. He faced charges including second-degree murder, illegal use of a weapon, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in connection with Porter’s death.

If anyone has information about Porter, his last known movements that night, or witnessed activity on Education Street on December 23, 2016, please come forward.