Calexico Chronicle reports. Police are investigating his death as a homicide.Slab City, an encampment on what’s left of a closed military base, is popular with artists and retirees.
Black, who went by the nickname “Legion” in the area, arrived in Slab City in December or January from Nashville, a friend who went to high school with him in Tennessee told the Chronicle. “Poe went to an arts-based high school and was a very talented visual artist.