On the late afternoon of Sunday, August 31, 2025, 44-year-old Brandon Goldberg was found dead inside a passenger vehicle parked in the driveway of a vacant home at 3202 W. 15th Avenue in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The property owner discovered the car while checking on the vacant residence, recognized Goldberg, and called police and the victim’s family. Officers from the Pine Bluff Police Department arrived just before 4:30 p.m. after reports of a shooting and found Goldberg unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Pine Bluff Police Department opened a homicide investigation. No arrests had been reported by September 18, 2025, and the case remained listed among the city’s open homicide investigations. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Pine Bluff Police Department’s detective office.