Donnikia Clark, a 46-year-old man from Meridian, Mississippi, was shot to death on October 7, 2017, following an argument in the front yard of a home on 28th Avenue. A 9mm shell casing was found near Clark’s body at the scene. Responding officers were told by the homeowner, who had heard the gunshot and discovered the victim in her yard, that her son, Travis Ray Conner, was responsible. An eyewitness also said they saw Conner shoot Clark after a heated verbal exchange.

A second 9mm casing recovered from Conner’s bedroom was forensically matched to the casing found at the scene. Conner fled the state but was arrested days later in Topeka, Kansas, and returned to Mississippi to face murder charges. The case proceeded to Lauderdale County Circuit Court; a jury found Travis Ray Conner guilty of first-degree murder in October 2022. With prior violent felonies and a violent habitual offender designation, he was sentenced under Mississippi’s three-strikes law to life in prison without parole.

Did anyone in Meridian know Clark or see him on 28th Avenue around October 7, 2017?