On October 5, 2020, 36-year-old Travis Belk was fatally shot on North 10th Street near KIPP Delta Elementary School in West Helena, Arkansas. The school went into lockdown during dismissal after witnesses reported seeing Belk and another man exchange gunfire and Belk collapse in the street. Authorities identified 28-year-old Demarious White as a suspect; White turned himself in to the Helena-West Helena Police Department and was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault, terroristic act, and possession of a firearm and booked into the Phillips County Detention Center with bond set at $590,000.

Belk was a West Helena resident who was born and raised in East St. Louis, Illinois, and moved to Helena in 2005, where he graduated from Central High School. He was a member of Grace Tabernacle Church in East St. Louis. Five years earlier, in October 2015, Belk had been arrested on multiple charges, including 12 counts of attempted first-degree murder, arson, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, in an incident that reportedly involved Molotov cocktails and gunfire at a home.

Does anyone have information about the shooting or remembered seeing activity on North 10th Street that afternoon?