Austen McAfee, 24, was shot and killed outside his home at 2709 S. Georgia in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in the early hours of March 4, 2024. Officers responded just after 3:00 AM to a report of a shooting and found McAfee unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the chest; deputies from the Jefferson County Coroner’s office pronounced him dead at the scene.

Family members say the confrontation began when McAfee went outside after seeing someone breaking into his vehicle in his driveway. As the person or persons fled, they fired one shot that struck McAfee. The Pine Bluff Police Department opened a homicide investigation and described it as in the preliminary stages in the initial press release; no suspects were named in that release.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the detective office tip line at 870-730-2106, the detective office at 870-730-2090, or the dispatch center at 870-541-5300. Did anyone in the Pine Bluff area see or hear anything that night?