A dispute at a house on 35 Davis Dawsey Road in Nicholson, Mississippi, on October 29, 2016, ended with 39-year-old Mark Johnson Jr. of Slidell, Louisiana, shot multiple times and dead at the scene. Neighbors reported hearing the argument move outside; witnesses say Johnson was in his vehicle when the shooting began. According to those accounts, a .22 caliber rifle was fired into the car, striking Johnson five times, and as he tried to crawl away through the passenger side he was struck twice more, including a fatal head wound the chief detective described as the most cold-blooded killing he had ever seen. An 18-year-old, Larry Richard Carver (also referred to as Richard L.

Carver in reports), was arrested the next day during a traffic stop and held on a $1 million bond for the murder charge. A second man, 38-year-old Nicky R. Smith of Hampton Road, was arrested November 7, 2016, on a charge of being an accessory after the fact and released on a $50,000 bond. Authorities recovered a firearm believed to be the weapon used.

Did anyone in the Nicholson or Slidell area know Mark Johnson or see anything relevant that night?