Judge sets $1M bail for suspect in Little Rock killing

Cortez Antonio Bone, 34, (left) is sought in the Monday, June 27, 2016, slaying of 37-year-old Marlon Walker in southwest Little Rock.
Cortez Antonio Bone, 34, (left) is sought in the Monday, June 27, 2016, slaying of 37-year-old Marlon Walker in southwest Little Rock.

A Little Rock man arrested in a fatal shooting this week pleaded innocent to first-degree murder Thursday, and a judge set his bail at $1 million.

Cortez Bone, 34, was arrested in the Monday shooting death of 3̶7̶-̶y̶e̶a̶r̶-̶o̶l̶d̶ 36-year-old* Marlon Walker after police said they found Bone hiding under a blanket in the back seat of a car driven by his brother, 29-year-old Calvin Slay, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Thursday.

A prosecutor said both Slay and Bone graduated from Little Rock's Mills University Studies High School.

Bone had worked occasionally for a local mobile-home moving company, the prosecutor said, while Slay had worked in Dallas for the past three years.

Bone has previous drug and aggravated robbery convictions, court records show. In addition to the murder charge, he was also charged with illegal firearms possession.

Slay was charged with hindering arrest or prosecution, to which he also pleaded innocent Monday. The judge set his bail at $5,000.

Read Friday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.

*CORRECTION: Little Rock homicide victim Marlon Walker was 36 years old at the time of his death. This story contained an incorrect age due to incorrect information from a police report.

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