On the evening of March 22, 2024, 20-year-old Adrianna Howell was found inside a parked vehicle in the 200 block of Beard Street in Hot Springs, Arkansas, having sustained apparent gunshot wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene. A second 20-year-old woman, Mahayla Swayze, also suffered gunshot wounds in the same incident and was transported to a hospital, where she died two days later on March 24, 2024. A juvenile male was found nearby in the 200 block of North Patterson Street with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his leg and was hospitalized.

The Hot Springs Police Department identified multiple juvenile suspects and, in the days after the shooting, arrested two juveniles on the Monday following the incident; a third juvenile surrendered on Tuesday. All three face charges including capital murder and aggravated robbery. The community continues to process the loss of two young lives; anyone with information about the shooting is asked to come forward.