Hunter Roberts Laney, 25, of Pine Bluff, was fatally shot in Monticello, Arkansas, in the early morning hours of October 29, 2016. The shooting followed a dispute over two pocket knives at The River Sports Bar between Laney and 37-year-old Charles Dobbins. After security intervened both men left; Laney drove away with two passengers and was followed by Dobbins and another person in a white SUV.

The confrontation ended in the parking lot of a gas station on U.S. Highway 278, where Laney was seated in the driver’s seat and was shot multiple times. He died at the scene. A female passenger was wounded and treated at a local hospital; a third occupant was uninjured. Dobbins fled but was arrested later the same day after a brief standoff at a Highway 425 South residence. He was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree battery, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Another person was detained on lesser charges and later released.

Anyone who was at The River Sports Bar that night or who has information about the events in the Highway 278 parking lot is asked to come forward.