On the evening of June 5, 2024, 17-year-old Darrien Matthews was fatally shot in the parking lot of an apartment complex on North Chicot Road in Little Rock, Arkansas. Officers arrived around 7:49 p.m. and found two male juveniles with gunshot wounds. Both were taken to a nearby hospital; Darrien died of his injuries and the other 17-year-old was reported stable and later released.

Family remembered Darrien as funny, caring, and possessing an old soul. His mother, Sherica Lewis, said she rushed to the scene and witnessed her son on the ground, and she expressed profound pain and anger while saying he had fallen in with the wrong crowd and made deadly mistakes. Funeral services for Darrien were held on June 22, 2024.

No arrests had been announced and the circumstances leading up to the shooting remained under investigation. If anyone saw what happened in the apartment complex parking lot on North Chicot Road that evening or has information, please come forward.