Jeremy Louis Arkansas, 31, was found late morning on March 4, 2016, in a downtown Las Vegas alley off 600 South 10th Street, near East Bonneville Avenue and South Maryland Parkway. Patrol officers responding to a nearby encampment discovered him with obvious facial trauma; medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. The autopsy showed a large skull fracture and the Clark County coroner ruled the death a homicide.

Detectives said Arkansas, who was unhoused at the time, had been in a fight the previous night and they focused on reconstructing his hours between that argument and when he was found. Public notices and obituaries place his origins in Roosevelt, Utah, with family ties to the Uintah Basin; loved ones remembered his humor, his enjoyment of fishing and hunting, and how devoted he was to his children.

Anyone who knew about the fight or Arkansas’s last movements is asked to come forward with information.