Just after midnight on December 28, 2023, officers in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, responded to a report of a car with its windows shot out near 313 E. 21st Street and found 31-year-old Zeavon Montreal Irby inside a parked vehicle. Irby was unresponsive and had sustained apparent gunshot wounds; the Jefferson County Coroner pronounced him dead at the scene.

The Pine Bluff Police Department confirmed his death as a homicide and opened an investigation. Detectives publicized tip lines and urged anyone with information to contact the department, but no suspects or arrests have been publicly identified. The case remains an open homicide investigation.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or saw a vehicle matching that description in the area, contact the Pine Bluff Police Department’s detective tip line.