Shortly before 2:30 a.m. on December 3, 2023, Drew County 911 callers drew deputies to the old Wilmar School on North 5th Street. Officers found 25-year-old Suquorey Pitts Jr. of Dumas deceased in the front passenger seat of a vehicle parked in the school driveway. Twenty-one-year-old Independence Young of McGehee was found nearby in the street. Both men had apparent gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead at the scene.

The Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division took over the inquiry. Pitts Jr., born December 27, 1997, was a Lakeside High School class of 2016 graduate who earned an associate degree in computer technology from the University of Arkansas at Monticello. He was a father of three, enjoyed traveling and promoting music, and was described as the life of the party with a wide smile.

On July 30, 2024, a traffic stop at the intersection of Highways 65 and 82 in Lake Village led troopers to identify and arrest 25-year-old Taiwan Collins Jr. of McGehee. Collins was taken to the Drew County Detention Center and held on two counts of Capital Murder in connection with the deaths.

Did anyone in the area see Pitts Jr., Young, or the vehicle near the old Wilmar School that night?