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On May 14, 2017, a shooting at a private party in the basement of 311-B South Main Street in downtown Jonesboro left 18-year-old Monterio Barnes dead and six others wounded. The gathering, known as The Basement, was hosting a local event when a fight between rival groups reportedly broke out and escalated into gunfire.

Two men were arrested in the immediate aftermath. On the night of the shooting, 19-year-old Chauncey Jovon Thomas turned himself in and was charged with first-degree murder and six counts of first-degree battery. The next day, 20-year-old Kallius Jaciel Lane was arrested in Texas by Arkansas authorities and the U.S. Marshals Dallas/Fort Worth Fugitive Task Force on the same charges. The six injured — Stefan Hawthorne, Carey Bell, Steven Brimlett, Asia Smith, Devontae Fowler and Cordarius Jackson — were all from Jonesboro; their conditions were not publicly disclosed.

Court appearances and motions followed, but specific trial outcomes were not widely reported. Does anyone have additional information about the victims, witnesses, or what happened that night at The Basement?