A shooting inside the Palace Night Club on Scenic Highway in Baton Rouge shortly after midnight on April 1 left 26-year-old Timotheus Bowie Jr dead. Bowie was taken to a local hospital in a private vehicle but later died of his injuries. The Baton Rouge Police Department initially reported no identified suspect or known motive for the nightclub shooting, which occurred during an especially violent Easter weekend in the city.

By July, Baton Rouge homicide detectives arrested 21-year-old Marquis Payne and booked him into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with Bowie’s death. In November a grand jury returned an indictment on the murder charge. Few details about a motive have been reported, and those following the case note Payne had also been arrested in August as part of a multi-location raid tied to an alleged drug ring.

If anyone was at the Palace Night Club that night or has information about what happened, please share what you know.