Davion Bankhead was 24 when he was fatally shot on August 11, 2017, at about 9:30 p.m. in the 800 block of West Park Street in Searcy, Arkansas. Emergency responders found him with gunshot wounds and he was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later. The Searcy Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

Within days authorities arrested 19-year-old Justice Cunningham and charged him with capital murder; he was taken into custody around 2 a.m. on August 15, 2017, and held at the White County jail without bond. In June 2018 a White County jury acquitted Cunningham after a trial that lasted several days and about two hours of deliberation. After that acquittal, a second 19-year-old, Edward Driver Jr., was arrested and charged with capital murder and held without bond.

As of December 2024 there is no information that Driver has been tried or convicted. The case remains unresolved and the circumstances of Bankhead’s homicide are still a matter of public concern in Searcy. Does anyone have information about Davion Bankhead or about the shooting that could help move this case forward?