On the evening of June 22, 2018, Trevarland Smith, 34, was fatally shot along Highway 15 North in Tucker, Arkansas. Jefferson County deputies arriving about 9:00 p.m. found another man, 34-year-old Rodney Scaife, unresponsive in the driver’s seat; Scaife was pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot wound. Smith was also shot and died while being transported to a nearby hospital.

Witnesses at the scene identified a suspect, 27-year-old Joshua Lasley, who fled immediately after the shooting. A search followed; law enforcement located and arrested Lasley at a residence in Pine Bluff on June 27, 2018. Lasley was taken into custody without incident and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Smith and Scaife.

Few public details are available about what led to the shootings. If anyone has information about the events along Highway 15 North on June 22, 2018, or knew either victim, please share what we might have missed.