On the morning of Saturday, January 24, 2026, 18-year-old Jayden Hoskins was found on the front porch of a residence at 2009 Brown Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, after a ShotSpotter activation indicated gunfire in the area. Officers from the 12th Street Division arrived around 8:20 a.m. and discovered Hoskins suffering from multiple gunshot wounds; emergency medical personnel responded but he died at the scene. The Pulaski County Coroner’s Office arranged transport of the body to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for determination of the official cause of death.

Homicide Detectives and the Crime Scene Search Unit secured the area and opened an investigation. Detectives identified 20-year-old Jonathon Scott Jr. as a suspect; he was taken into custody, interviewed at the Major Crimes Division and subsequently charged with Capital Murder. The investigation into Jayden Hoskins’s death remains ongoing.

If anyone in Little Rock saw activity near Brown Street that morning or has information about Jayden’s death, please share what you know with investigators.