On November 12, 2023, at about 1:28 p.m. Arlington officers responded to a reported shooting at an apartment complex in the 1000 block of West Arkansas Lane. They found 26-year-old Jared Jackson unresponsive with an apparent gunshot wound in front of one of the apartments; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Arlington homicide detectives identified three suspects: 23-year-old Brenton Smith, 17-year-old Jaka Livingston, and 19-year-old Ahmed Osman. Detectives say Smith had a dispute with Jackson over drugs and/or money, and that Smith brought Livingston and Osman to Jackson’s apartment, where Jackson was shot. Members of the U.S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force located and arrested all three; they were booked on capital murder charges and transferred to the Tarrant County Jail.

Anyone with additional information is asked to contact Detective Coffer at (817) 459-5735 or Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County at (817) 469-8477; tipsters may remain anonymous. Did anyone in the area see activity at the complex that afternoon?