A Gurdon man was shot and killed late Tuesday in Arkadelphia, and police have a suspect in custody.
Arkadelphia police were dispatched to Ross Apartments Tuesday at 11: 39 p.m. after a 911 call from the apartment complex. According to information from the Arkadelphia Police Department, Cpl. Robert Jones was first on the scene. Upon arrival he asked bystanders who and where the alleged shooter went, and was told the shooter fled on foot south, toward Pine Street. Jones then walked toward the victim, 30-year-old Darian D. Garland, of 293 Lockie Road, Gurdon.
A female was holding Garland, who was bleeding from the chest and appeared not to be breathing. Henderson State University police arrived and assisted Arkadelphia police by clearing bystanders from the parking lot and taping off the crime scene.
As police set up the perimeter, an ambulance crew arrived and transported Garland to Baptist Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
While moving bystanders from the scene, a witness told Jones and other officers that a man named Deundrio Green was the shooter. Police talked to and gathered names from nine witnesses at the scene. Some were transported to Arkadelphia Police Department for interviewing.
Investigators Sgt. Roy Bethell, Cpl. Jason Watson and Brent Whitworth all responded, and the crime scene was turned over to them. Bethell said investigators collected six shell casings from the crime scene, but no gun had been found by Wednesday morning.
Other evidence collected from the scene included a hat, shirt, an empty unlabeled prescription bottle and a Budweiser beer can.
Asked if he knew of a potential motive, Bethell said, “According to one witness, it was a feud that had been going on for the past few days which involved a girlfriend, or maybe an ex-girlfriend. We learned the feud wasn’t directly related to the victim.”
Police located Green at 16th and Barkman streets, where he was arrested without incident.
He was booked in the Clark County Detention Center for first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Prosecuting Attorney Blake Batson said an investigation is under way, and confirmed that Green is still in custody at the county jail.
No formal charges had been filed against Green at presstime, though, according to the police report on file at APD, the formal charge against Green could be first-degree murder.
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A Gurdon man was shot and killed late Tuesday in Arkadelphia, and police have a suspect in custody.
Arkadelphia police were dispatched to Ross Apartments Tuesday at 11: 39 p.m. after a 911 call from the apartment complex. According to information from the Arkadelphia Police Department, Cpl. Robert Jones was first on the scene. Upon arrival he asked bystanders who and where the alleged shooter went, and was told the shooter fled on foot south, toward Pine Street. Jones then walked toward the victim, 30-year-old Darian D. Garland, of 293 Lockie Road, Gurdon.
A female was holding Garland, who was bleeding from the chest and appeared not to be breathing. Henderson State University police arrived and assisted Arkadelphia police by clearing bystanders from the parking lot and taping off the crime scene.
As police set up the perimeter, an ambulance crew arrived and transported Garland to Baptist Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
While moving bystanders from the scene, a witness told Jones and other officers that a man named Deundrio Green was the shooter. Police talked to and gathered names from nine witnesses at the scene. Some were transported to Arkadelphia Police Department for interviewing.
Investigators Sgt. Roy Bethell, Cpl. Jason Watson and Brent Whitworth all responded, and the crime scene was turned over to them. Bethell said investigators collected six shell casings from the crime scene, but no gun had been found by Wednesday morning.
Other evidence collected from the scene included a hat, shirt, an empty unlabeled prescription bottle and a Budweiser beer can.
Asked if he knew of a potential motive, Bethell said, “According to one witness, it was a feud that had been going on for the past few days which involved a girlfriend, or maybe an ex-girlfriend. We learned the feud wasn’t directly related to the victim.”
Police located Green at 16th and Barkman streets, where he was arrested without incident.
He was booked in the Clark County Detention Center for first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Prosecuting Attorney Blake Batson said an investigation is under way, and confirmed that Green is still in custody at the county jail.
No formal charges had been filed against Green at presstime, though, according to the police report on file at APD, the formal charge against Green could be first-degree murder.
