Police obtain murder arrest warrant in Camelot East shooting

Police on Tuesday obtained an arrest warrant charging Clarence W. Taylor, 24, with murder in connection with Friday’s shooting at Camelot East Lounge.

Laroz Lee Mitchell, 23, died of multiple gunshot wounds early Friday at University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital.

Police were still looking for Taylor Tuesday night and asked that anyone with information call police at 859-258-3600 or Bluegrass Crime Stoppers at 859-253-2020. Information can also be submitted at Bluegrasscrimestoppers.com.

Lexington police were dispatched at 2:41 a.m. Friday to St. Joseph East Hospital for a man with multiple gunshot wounds, and five minutes later police received a report of shots fired at Camelot East, 2606 Richmond Road. The shooting happened around the time the bar was closing at 2:30 a.m., according to police.

Mitchell’s death was Lexington’s fifth homicide of 2016.

In July, Mitchell testified for the prosecution in the trial of Deionta Hayes, who was convicted in the March 2012 shooting death of Henry Clay High School student Chaz Black, said Fayette Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Dan Laren.

Mitchell and another young man were wounded in the 2012 shooting which happened at an apartment on Palumbo Drive. Hayes was convicted of two counts of second-degree assault in addition to the murder count. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

This story was originally published February 23, 2016 at 8:13 PM with the headline "Police obtain murder arrest warrant in Camelot East shooting."