On the afternoon of Thursday, July 20, 2023, Hot Springs Police officers responded to a shooting at a residence in the 700 block of Ward Street. Inside, they found 40-year-old Harvey Jackson Austin and 40-year-old Joe Nathaniel Hicks Jr. deceased with apparent fatal gunshot wounds. The department’s Criminal Investigations Division opened an immediate investigation.

By about 10:30 p.m. that same evening authorities located and arrested 35-year-old Jamieon Katreal Hawkins-Nolen of Hot Springs. Hawkins-Nolen was booked into the Garland County Detention Center and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Austin and Hicks.

Does anyone have information about Harvey Austin’s life in Hot Springs or about the events at the Ward Street residence that afternoon?