Ashton Jackson, 34, was found with an apparent fatal gunshot wound in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in the early morning of March 16, 2019. Pine Bluff police discovered him about 4:40 a.m. near the Martha Mitchell Expressway and Blake Street; emergency responders arrived but the deputy coroner pronounced him dead at 5:44 a.m. His death was recorded as the city’s sixth homicide of 2019.

Ashton Chris Jackson was born in Little Rock on March 15, 1985, and was survived by his parents and three siblings. The Pine Bluff Police Department opened a homicide investigation but had not released information identifying a suspect, and investigators appealed to the public for tips.

If anyone has information about where Jackson was that morning or witnessed activity near Martha Mitchell Expressway and Blake Street, please come forward.