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A dispute over jukebox music inside The Tipsy Pine in Hayden, Idaho, on the night of February 23–24, 2019 ended in gunfire in the parking lot. Michael Christopher Clark, 45, known to friends as Topher, was found unresponsive in the Hayden Creek Plaza parking lot after deputies responded around 1:40 a.m. He was transported to a hospital but died of multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, stomach, back, and a bicep.

The confrontation reportedly began when Clark confronted another patron, 33-year-old Scott M. White of Coeur d’Alene, about loud behavior at the jukebox. Witnesses said White spoke Clark’s name, Clark said he did not know him, and the argument escalated into a physical fight that moved outside. After Clark was shot, a friend of Clark’s retrieved a gun from his vehicle and held the suspect at gunpoint until deputies arrived. White was arrested at the scene and charged with second-degree murder; deputies noted he appeared extremely intoxicated and had visible injuries from the brawl.

Clark had previously been publicly linked to a marijuana smuggling ring covered in a 2005 Rolling Stone article and portrayed in the 2014 movie Kid Cannabis. Does anyone have information about the events inside the bar that night or the moments leading up to the parking-lot confrontation?