Deshun “SkyBaby” Cook, a 27-year-old Black male, was shot and killed on the night of November 24, 2018, at the Oak Manor Apartment complex in Monroe, Louisiana. The killing unfolded in a place meant for ordinary routines—parking lots, stairwells, doors that should have led to quiet apartments—yet that night ended with the sound of gunfire and a life cut off before help could change the outcome.
In the days after the shooting, investigators identified a teenage suspect and sought
to bring him in on a second-degree murder warrant. As the search widened, police believed he had left Louisiana, and the case quickly became one of those urgent manhunts where the questions are no longer only what happened, but where the suspect went, who might be helping, and whether another violent moment could be waiting around the next corner.
Authorities ultimately traced the suspect to Joplin, Missouri. After Monroe police contacted the Joplin Police Department for assistance, detectives conducted a brief investigation and located 17-year-old Markeivion Ray Hill walking near the 1200 block of South Wisconsin. He was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Joplin City Jail while the second-degree murder charge in connection with Cook’s death followed him back across state lines.
Public reporting on the case centers on the charge and the interstate arrest, while details that often come later—how the confrontation began, what witnesses saw, what evidence anchored the warrant, and whether additional suspects were investigated—were not laid out in the same accounts. What remains clear in those early reports is the basic arc: a fatal shooting at Oak Manor on November 24, a named suspect wanted for second-degree murder, and an arrest days later in Missouri that ended the immediate search but not the grief left behind in Monroe.
