Police have charged a Halifax man with second-degree murder in the 2017 death of Benjamin Loka Lokeny.

Troy Edward William Clayton, 52, was arrested on March 22.

Lokeny was found injured at the corner of Buddy Daye and Gottingen streets on the evening of July 20, 2017.

A photo of Benjamin Loka Lokeny from the Rewards for Major Unsolved Crimes’s website.

The 51-year-old man had a head injury and was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. He died on Aug. 28, 2017.

This month — a year-and-a-half after his death — police ruled his death a homicide. Police said they believed he had been assaulted by another man who was known to him.

The case was added to the province’s Rewards for Unsolved Crimes Program last Tuesday, March 19.

The program offers $150,000 to anyone who has information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for a crime.

Clayton has been remanded and is scheduled to appear in Halifax Provincial Court on Monday to face a charge of second-degree murder.

Halifax Regional Police are asking anyone who has information about Benjamin’s murder to call 902-490-5016 or Crime Stoppers.

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