A spring afternoon in Pine Bluff turned deadly on May 2, 2020, when 43-year-old Stanley Jones was found unresponsive near the Staples on East Harding Avenue with apparent gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Jones was a Black male. The shooting was recorded as the city’s ninth homicide of the year.

Investigators arrested 28-year-old Kendra Howard and charged her with first-degree murder. Witnesses told police an argument had occurred in a vehicle before they called Jones to pick them up. According to those witnesses, after one got into Jones’s vehicle Howard approached the passenger side, produced a handgun and began shooting; a struggle over the weapon allowed the witnesses and a small child to flee into the Staples for safety. Howard reportedly left in a vehicle and was later stopped by a Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy. Jones was buried on May 23, 2020, in Memory Lawn Cemetery in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Are there readers who were in that area on May 2, 2020, or who might have seen the vehicle Howard left in?