On the evening of Saturday, January 18, 2014, 18-year-old Quintarius Brown was found in the 1100 block of South Third Street in south Monroe with a gunshot wound to the head. The Monroe Police Department responded and investigators treated the scene as a homicide, launching a search for witnesses and leads as detectives worked the case over the following weeks.

On February 4, 2014, police announced the arrest of 25-year-old Carlos Heard of Monroe on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with Brown’s death. Heard was booked into the Ouachita Correctional Center and the matter was turned over to the courts for legal proceedings.

If anyone in south Monroe that winter remembers seeing something or has information about the shooting, please come forward and contact the Monroe Police Department.