On the morning of March 22, 2017, just before 3:30 a.m., officers in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, found 18-year-old Parius Hicks lying in the street near 38th and Hazel Street with a gunshot wound to his upper body. A Jefferson County deputy coroner pronounced him dead at 4:31 a.m. The killing was the third homicide in the city within five days, prompting an active detective investigation.

Police identified a juvenile suspect by late Wednesday afternoon. The youth was brought to the police department by a parent, questioned by detectives, and then arrested on charges in connection with Hicks’s murder. The investigation remained ongoing as authorities worked to piece together what happened that night.

If anyone has information about Parius Hicks, his activities that night, or the events around 38th and Hazel Street, please share what you know.