John Lee Porter, 59, was fatally shot on July 25, 2014, after a dispute that began inside Brother Jay’s Club on Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Drive in Brookhaven, Mississippi. The verbal argument between Porter and 63-year-old Clyde Smith moved into the club parking lot after threats were made. Officers arrived about 5:37 p.m. and found Porter on the ground with at least one gunshot wound; Smith remained in the parking lot when police got there.

Porter was taken to the University of Mississippi Medical Center and underwent surgery but died that night, pronounced dead at 10:28 p.m. Clyde Smith was arrested in connection with the shooting; he was initially charged with aggravated assault and released on $100,000 bond, and the charge was later upgraded to murder.

Did anyone in the Brookhaven area witness the argument or the parking lot confrontation that evening?