In the early morning hours of June 9, 2026, 35-year-old Derrick Burgess was found dead near the carport of a home in the 600 block of Brodie Lane in Ashdown, Arkansas. Officers arrived around 6:25 a.m. and pronounced Burgess dead at the scene after he sustained multiple gunshot wounds. His body was sent to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory to establish the official cause and manner of death.

A 49-year-old woman identified as Summer Grimes, described as Burgess’s girlfriend, was taken into custody at the scene after an initial report that a woman had shot her boyfriend. The Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division took over the inquiry, with assistance from the 8th South and 9th West Drug Task Forces. Executed search warrants led to the seizure of numerous firearms and illegal narcotics.

Formal charges had not been filed by mid-June 2026 as investigators prepared a case file for the Little River County Prosecuting Attorney’s review. Was anyone in the Ashdown area awake that morning who saw or heard anything around Brodie Lane that could help investigators?