Shoncoven Smith was a 22-year-old Black man shot and killed on January 25, 2014, after an argument on Little Rock’s Elam Street. The dispute moved into the open air around 6:30 p.m., and gunfire left Smith mortally wounded. A 16-year-old boy running from the scene was struck several times but survived.

Detectives identified 27-year-old Steven Roshawn Hayes as a suspect soon after the shooting and sought him as armed and dangerous, preparing warrants for first-degree murder, first-degree battery, and unlawful possession of a firearm by certain persons. Smith’s family publicly mourned and sought accountability; his death was noted in funeral notices and remembrance pages that record his date of death and hometown.

More than a year later, Hayes was arrested at a home on South Main and charged with first-degree murder in Smith’s death and first-degree battery for the wounded teen. Does anyone have information about what led up to the argument on Elam Street or who witnessed the confrontation?