In the early morning hours of August 20, 2019, 35-year-old Marquita Harris was found dead of gunshot wounds inside her Pine Bluff, Arkansas home at 4218 W. Hepburn Street. Officers first responded to reports of gunshots near West Hepburn Street about 1:45 a.m. and left after finding nothing, but returned about an hour later following a welfare check by a roommate who had escaped the residence through a window and called authorities.

Also found and pronounced dead at the scene was 54-year-old David Heard. Both victims had sustained fatal gunshot wounds. The roommate was questioned in the immediate aftermath, but no arrests were announced and no motive has been released. The double killing represented the city’s 19th and 20th homicides that year and remains unsolved.

If anyone knew Marquita Harris or has information about what happened that night, please come forward with any details that might help investigators.