In the early morning hours of April 18, 2025, officers found 26-year-old Asa Stewart unresponsive at the top of a stairwell in an apartment building at 2600 W. 30th Avenue in Pine Bluff. Stewart, a Black male, had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives opened a homicide investigation immediately.

Investigators identified 38-year-old Quan Turner as a suspect and arrested him on April 22, 2025; he was charged with Capital Murder and Possession of a Firearm by Certain Persons and booked into the Jefferson County Jail. Detectives later named 22-year-old Ka’Juan Madkin as an additional suspect; Madkin is considered armed and dangerous, has active felony warrants from Lincoln County, and his last known address is in the 2300 block of Pine Hill Drive in Pine Bluff. The investigation remains active.

Does anyone have information about Asa Stewart or the whereabouts of Ka’Juan Madkin?