On the morning of October 9, 2021, 18-year-old Christian Lamar Mayzes was found with a gunshot wound at 3702 W. Short 2nd Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Officers had responded shortly before 5:00 a.m.; Mayzes told them he had been shot at a club at 218 S. Blake Street before he lost consciousness. He was taken to Jefferson Regional Medical Center and pronounced dead about 6:00 a.m.

The club where the shooting occurred was operating in a building formerly known as Earnesto’s. A security guard said the shooting happened just outside the building and those involved fled immediately. Residents reported hearing several gunshots around 3:30 a.m. The Pine Bluff Police Department recorded Mayzes as the city’s 21st homicide of 2021 and described the investigation as ongoing; no arrests have been announced and police are asking the public for information.

Mayzes was about to start a job at a local Rally’s Drive-thru. Does anyone who was in the area that night or who knew Christian have information that could help investigators?