In the early morning hours of April 22, 2016, a disturbance at Cottonwood Manor Apartments in Holly Grove, Arkansas ended with the fatal shooting of 27-year-old Robert Matthew Grant Ewans. Responding officers found Ewans at the complex near State Highway 17 and 86; he was a Black male and had been wounded by gunshots. His body was taken to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for an official determination of cause and manner of death.

The Arkansas State Police opened the investigation and identified a suspect, 46-year-old Dale Erwin Ware of Pine Bluff. Ware was located and taken into custody near Olive Street, north of Interstate 530, by about 8 a.m. the same day and was held in Monroe County in connection with the shooting. Motive and the specific circumstances leading to the shooting were not released, and it is unclear what charges, if any, were ultimately filed or how the case proceeded.

Does anyone have information about Robert Ewans, his movements that night, or details about the incident that could help clarify what happened?