Deandre Jones, a 25-year-old Black man who worked as a barber, was known to some by his nickname, "6 Dre Da Troof." He lived at the Beacon Hill Apartments in his community of Little Rock, Arkansas.
On the evening of July 19, 2022, his life was cut short by gunfire at the apartment complex on Reservoir Road. Little Rock Police officers responded to a shooting call and found Deandre suffering from gunshot wounds. Emergency medical services were notified, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
While detectives were investigating at the apartment complex, they were alerted that a second victim from the same incident had been dropped off at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. That individual, later identified as 18-year-old Javyn Luckey, also succumbed to his gunshot wounds, turning the case into a double homicide investigation.
For more than a year, detectives worked the case.
On August 3, 2023, the Little Rock Police Department announced a breakthrough with the arrest of 22-year-old Key'Andre Collins. At that time, investigators also released their findings on the sequence of events from that night.
Police reported that during the shootout at the apartment complex, Javyn Luckey shot and killed Deandre Jones. They stated that Key'Andre Collins then fatally shot Luckey. Following the investigation, Collins was charged with the first-degree murder of Javyn Luckey and two counts of a terroristic act. Because the person identified by police as the shooter of Deandre Jones was himself deceased, the case regarding his death was closed as of August 2023.
