On the morning of January 12, 2015, police in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, responded to a call about a gunshot in the 2100 block of South Beech Street and found 36-year-old Lakechia D. Clark dead inside her residence from a fatal gunshot wound. Clark, a Black female, was reported as the city’s first homicide of the year.

Investigators identified 22-year-old acquaintance Rashad Williams as a person of interest and arrested him. He was originally charged with second-degree murder and told detectives the shooting was an accident, saying a gun he was holding fell and discharged, striking Clark. Evidence from the scene reportedly did not match that account, and authorities later reduced the charge to manslaughter. Williams was booked into the Jefferson County Jail pending a probable cause hearing.

Does anyone have information about Lakechia Clark, her circle, or the events on South Beech Street that morning?