Leoncio Zavala Flores was 21 when he was fatally shot on March 12, 2020, inside an apartment in the 2400 block of McConnell Circle in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Born in Mapastepec, Mexico, he graduated from Clarendon High School in 2017 and attended Southern Arkansas University Tech and Southeast Arkansas College. He had worked at Highland Pallets in Pine Bluff and later at Walmart in Stuttgart. Family and friends remembered him as outgoing, always smiling, and someone who loved cooking and being with loved ones.

The Pine Bluff Police Department responded to a report of a shooting and found Flores unresponsive with a fatal gunshot wound. Investigators identified two suspects and, on March 19, 2020, arrested 18-year-old Karizma Fisher of Monticello and 18-year-old Keuntae Shelton of Pine Bluff. Both were booked into the Jefferson County Jail on charges of Capital Murder and Aggravated Robbery in connection with Flores’s death.

If anyone knew Leoncio or has information about what happened that night, please come forward and share what you know.