On the night of Monday, May 29, 2023, Little Rock officers responded at 11:02 p.m. to a shooting on the 9600 block of West 36th Street. They found 30-year-old Dantas Evins with apparent gunshot wounds and another person injured. Both were taken to hospitals; Evins later died of his injuries and his body was sent to the state crime lab for autopsy.

Homicide detectives secured the scene, canvassed for witnesses and video, and developed a person of interest identified as 32-year-old Antonio Holden. Holden was taken into custody on unrelated charges and brought to the Major Crimes Division for questioning about Evins’s death, then released without charges pending a file review. The investigation remains open and next of kin have been notified.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has surveillance footage from West 36th Street that night, please share what you know.