On the afternoon of April 24, 2020, police in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, responded to reports of gunfire near 16th Avenue and Plum Street. Officers found 34-year-old Emmanuel Foster on the ground with apparent gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. A second man, 37-year-old Jason Anderson, also sustained serious gunshot injuries and was taken to a local medical center.

The shooting was Pine Bluff’s sixth homicide of 2020. The Pine Bluff Police Department opened an investigation into the double shooting. Authorities later arrested two people, 33-year-old Deric Smith and 23-year-old Lemiesha Toney, who were booked into the Jefferson County Jail on capital murder and first-degree battery charges. If anyone has information about what happened near 16th Avenue and Plum Street that afternoon, please share what is known with the police.