BATON ROUGE - Police have arrested a suspect linked to a shooting that left a man dead near Highland Road over the summer. 

The Baton Rouge Police Department said Thursday that officers arrested Keon Wilson, 42, in the July 7 shooting on West Johnson Street. The shooting left 30-year-old Jaylan Stanton dead.

At the time, police said Stanton was shot dead in a vacant, grassy lot. 

The motive in the shooting is unclear, police said in a statement Thursday.

Wilson was booked for second-degree murder.