A dispute over a parking space at a Raceway on State Line Avenue in Texarkana ended in fatal violence on the night of September 25, 2015. Around 10:30 p.m., 49-year-old Marvin Arrell Stanton, arriving with a group of motorcyclists, confronted 22-year-old Jesse James Hamilton about Hamilton’s truck occupying a spot the bikers regularly used. Witnesses say Stanton, a much larger man who identified himself as a former Marine, displayed a holstered handgun and shoved Hamilton against his truck. Hamilton defended himself and a bystander separated them, but as the situation appeared to de-escalate Stanton drew a .45 caliber handgun and shot Hamilton once in the abdomen.

Hamilton was taken to a local hospital, underwent surgery, and died early the next morning on September 26, 2015. Stanton stayed at the scene and was arrested; charges were filed after Hamilton’s death. Hamilton was remembered as a husband and father. Does anyone have additional details about that night or knew Jesse James Hamilton?