On the evening of May 26, 2021, 18-year-old Caleb Sykes, a Black male from North Little Rock, was killed after a dispute between occupants of two vehicles escalated into gunfire on South University Avenue in Little Rock. The confrontation involved a white Toyota Camry and a silver Kia sedan; police first responded after reports of a disturbance with a weapon and a possible collision and found the Camry with apparent bullet holes and debris in the roadway.

Caleb Sykes, who had been a passenger in the Camry, was taken to a local hospital with gunshot wounds and later died. The Camry driver was not injured. Police later located the Kia on Wright Avenue; its occupants included a 17-year-old male and a 27-year-old female who suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, and a third person who was uninjured. Homicide detectives identified the 17-year-old male passenger in the Kia as a person of interest and were seeking his whereabouts. No arrests had been announced and the investigation was ongoing. The killing was reported as Little Rock’s 25th homicide that year.

If anyone has information about the shooting or the whereabouts of the person of interest, please share what is known with investigators.