Jarquezz Meadows, 24, was found with an apparent gunshot wound at a motel near Scott Hamilton Drive in Little Rock on February 18, 2025. Officers on patrol heard gunfire in the early morning and located Meadows at the scene; he was pronounced dead at about 9:19 a.m. The area was secured and homicide detectives began investigating the fatal shooting.

Authorities later identified a person of interest and arrested Braylon Gibson; Gibson was charged with capital murder in connection with Meadows’s death. Friends and family remember Meadows as a joyful, sweet individual. Few public details about the motive or events leading up to the shooting have been released.

If anyone witnessed activity near Scott Hamilton Drive or the nearby motel on February 18, 2025, or has information about this case, please come forward.