Alex Blueford, 38, of North Little Rock, Arkansas, was shot on the evening of Thursday, September 12, 2019, at an apartment complex at 800 North Beech Street. Officers found him with multiple gunshot wounds and he was taken to a local hospital. He died of those wounds three days later, on September 15, 2019, a death the Pulaski County Coroner’s Office counted as the city’s 12th homicide of the year.

A 70-year-old man named Louis Thomas turned himself in to the Little Rock Police Department and was initially charged with First Degree Battery; after Blueford’s death the charge was upgraded to First Degree Murder and Thomas was held without bond. Authorities did not immediately release a motive for the shooting.

Blueford had earlier faced a high-profile capital murder trial in 2009 related to the 2007 death of his girlfriend’s one-year-old son; that trial ended in a mistrial, the matter reached the U.S. Supreme Court in Blueford v. Arkansas, and in 2013 he entered a no-contest plea to first-degree murder and was sentenced to prison before being granted parole in December 2016.

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