Jeremiah Jerry Pryor was 18 when he was shot and killed on the afternoon of August 9, 2017, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Pryor had been at the Merrill Community Center and had gone to share news about a new job at McDonald’s with a former teacher when an argument in the parking lot with another 18-year-old, Alexis Reed, escalated. Witnesses said Reed produced a firearm and shot Pryor once in the upper body. Pryor managed to get back inside the community center and was taken to a local hospital, but the wound proved fatal; he was pronounced dead at 2:38 p.m. The community remembered him as outgoing, funny and caring.

After the shooting Reed fled on foot and was identified by multiple witnesses as the shooter. A first-degree murder warrant was issued and Reed remained a fugitive for several months until U.S. Marshals found and arrested her in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 23, 2018, and she was returned to Arkansas to face the charge. If anyone knew Jerry or has information about what happened that afternoon, please share what you know.