Kerry Leneal Hadley Jr., 22, was found fatally shot inside a home at 2103 Saracen Street in northern Pine Bluff on the afternoon of Saturday, February 17, 2024. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene; his death was the third homicide in Pine Bluff that year.

Minutes before officers reached the residence, a woman walked into the Pine Bluff Police Station on East 8th Avenue around 4:09 p.m. and told Sgt. Jasmine Womack her grandson had confessed to shooting someone. The grandson, identified in reports as 18-year-old Kyree Kendrick, was detained at the station. Kendrick was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and taken to the W.C. Dub Brassell Detention Center; the charge remained pending in February 2024 while detectives continued their investigation.

The Pine Bluff Police Department is asking anyone with information to contact the detective office tip line at 870-730-2106, Detective D. Nicholson at 870-730-2090, or dispatch at 870-541-5300. Does anyone have information about Hadley, the residence on Saracen Street, or the events that afternoon?