On Wednesday evening, April 11, 2018, 41-year-old James Rideout Jr. was shot and killed in the breezeway of his North Little Rock apartment building as he returned home from church with his family. Police were called about shots fired at about 9:00 p.m. and found Rideout with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to a nearby hospital and later died. Family members said he had been shot at least eight times.

Rideout was a husband and father to a 13-year-old daughter, the eldest of nine siblings, and had worked for nearly five years at the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel in Little Rock. His family described him as non-violent and devoted to them. The North Little Rock Police Department opened a homicide investigation and asked to speak with persons of interest, but no suspects were publicly identified and no arrests have been announced. The case appears to have gone cold and the family’s questions remain unanswered.

If anyone knew James, was in North Little Rock on April 11, 2018, or has information about people seen near his apartment that night, please share what is known.