Jamaine Sutton, a 32-year-old Black man from Dunbar, West Virginia, was killed during a chaotic outbreak of gunfire at the Boondocks Bar and Grill on Washington Street West in Charleston in the early morning hours of May 14, 2016. Police were called shortly after 2 a.m.; Sutton was pronounced dead at the scene and three other people were wounded but survived. Reports describe more than 40 shots fired as numerous weapons were discharged inside and around a crowded bar after an earlier altercation between two groups elsewhere that night.

Investigators recovered multiple firearms in and around the establishment, some reportedly stained with blood, but never recovered the specific weapon that fired the fatal shots.

Jaques (also rendered as Jacques) Lamar Slade of Gastonia, North Carolina, was arrested on May 21, 2016, and arraigned on a first-degree murder charge after two people inside the bar identified him as the shooter; he later admitted firing a gun during the confrontation but said he hadn’t been aiming at Sutton and did not know him. Donnell Pops A Lot Strong was publicly named as another participant; investigators said footage showed him firing toward the ceiling and warrants were issued for firearm-related offenses. Does anyone have information about Sutton, his movements that night, or witnesses who were at Boondocks that could help clarify what happened?