In the early morning hours of July 29, 2019, a shooting at the intersection of 14th Avenue and Blake Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, left 26-year-old Deandre Brown dead. Officers responding to a call at about 5:10 a.m. found a vehicle stopped in the roadway with Brown, a Black male, inside; he had sustained multiple gunshot wounds. The Pine Bluff Police Department classified the incident as the city’s 17th homicide of the year and opened an investigation.

Despite public appeals for information, investigators released no descriptions of suspects and announced no arrests in the immediate aftermath. The case remains unsolved and the investigation ongoing, leaving Brown’s family and the community without answers. If anyone has information about what happened that morning or saw activity near 14th Avenue and Blake Street around 5:00–5:30 a.m., please contact the Pine Bluff Police Department.