A late-night fight in Brinkley ended in a fatal shooting on December 13, 2022. Officers responded about 1:30 a.m. to 510 A South Carter Street and found 53-year-old Jimmy Lee Dillard dead at the scene. Investigators called in the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division and Dillard’s body was sent to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory for determination of manner and cause of death.

State police agents developed information identifying 24-year-old Tren-Terrious Stidum of Brinkley as a suspect in the shooting. A coordinated effort by the Arkansas State Police, Brinkley Police and Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies located Stidum at a residence in Brinkley; he was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Monroe County Detention Center on a first-degree murder charge and scheduled for a bond hearing the next day.

Who in the community might have seen or heard anything the early morning of December 13 that could help clarify what led to Dillard’s death?