Christopher DeMario Brown, 24, was working an early morning shift as a store clerk at Jordan’s Kwick Stop Shell at 180 Valley Street in the Caddo Valley area of Arkadelphia when two men entered the store with the intent to rob it. At approximately 4:43 AM on Sunday, January 25, 2015, one of the assailants shot Brown; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Arkansas State Police investigators reviewed store surveillance that captured the two men who entered and a third person who remained outside in a late-model four-door Ford Taurus described as possibly gray or green. Public descriptions named a heavy-set Black male in a white t-shirt with a black long-sleeve underneath and a blue U.S. Polo jacket tied at his waist, a skinny, short Black male in a gray hooded zip-up jacket armed with what appeared to be a long-barrel revolver, and a heavy-set Black male driver wearing a yellow t-shirt.

Within days two men from Pine Bluff were arrested and charged with Capital Felony Murder and Armed Robbery; investigators said the third suspect was still being sought. Christopher, a Benton resident, was an Army National Guard member and active at Elect Temple COGIC; funeral services were held January 31, 2015, and he was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Benton.

Did anyone in the area recognize the vehicle or the men seen in the surveillance images?