On a summer evening in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 14-year-old Floyd Cornell Allen III, a Black male, was found unresponsive in the grass at the intersection of 25th Avenue and South Maple Street with apparent gunshot wounds. His death was treated as a homicide.

Police identified 18-year-old Dicoreon Ford as a person wanted in the case. Ford was located and arrested in Stuttgart, Arkansas, after a multi-agency effort involving the Pine Bluff Police Department, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, the Arkansas County Sheriff’s Office, and the Stuttgart Police Department. During an interview with detectives he reportedly confessed, and a judge found probable cause to charge him with capital murder; he is being held without bond pending further court proceedings.

If anyone was in the area of 25th Avenue and South Maple Street that evening or has information about Floyd’s movements or witnesses to the shooting, please come forward.