Benjamen Redix was an 18-year-old Black student-athlete at White Hall High School who excelled in football and track. He helped his football team reach the 2021 5A state championship game and had recently won the state triple jump title; he had accepted a track scholarship to Southern Arkansas University and was close to head football coach Ryan Mallett.When police responded to a shooting on the night of May 18, 2023, in the 5800 block of Lynch Drive in North Little Rock, they found Redix in the roadway.

He had been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene. With him at the time was his friend, 17-year-old Jimari Douglas, who told police a gun he was handling accidentally discharged and Douglas was taken into custody on charges related to the shooting.The community responded by creating the Benjamen Redix Project, started by his mother Shaneisha Robinson to award scholarships to local student-athletes; his grandmother Flo Rambert said the family is trying to push through pain with a purpose.

Does anyone have information about Benjamen’s last night or the people he was with on Lynch Drive?