On New Year’s Day 2018, two people were found shot to death near Romance, Arkansas. Timothy Todd Dickson, a 54-year-old Caucasian man from Searcy, and 45-year-old Starla Exum of Romance were discovered with fatal gunshot wounds, and their deaths were investigated as a double homicide by the White County Sheriff’s Department with help from the Arkansas State Police.

Authorities identified 42-year-old Archie Lawhon III of Cabot as a suspect and launched a search that put residents on alert. Deputies located Lawhon in a wooded area; he was armed and, according to reports, did not comply with repeated commands to drop the handgun. Deputies shot and killed Lawhon during the confrontation, ending the manhunt for the person accused of killing Dickson and Exum.