On the evening of Tuesday, October 15, 2024, the sound of gunfire disrupted the quiet at the South Pointe Apartments on California Street in Marianna, Arkansas. Officers from the Marianna Police Department responded to reports of shots fired around 9:30 p.m. and discovered Danny Jordan, a 25-year-old Black man, lying in an open doorway of one of the apartments. He had sustained apparent gunshot wounds. The Lee County Coroner was called to the scene and pronounced Mr. Jordan dead.
In the days that followed, the Marianna Police Department requested that the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division lead the homicide investigation. Mr. Jordan’s body was transported to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory to determine the official cause and manner of his death.
The investigation quickly pointed to a suspect.
Just two days after the shooting, on Thursday, October 17, 2024, Special Agents with the Arkansas State Police arrested 18-year-old Jeremiah Harris of Marianna. Harris was taken into custody at the Lee County Detention Center and charged with First-Degree Murder and Committing a Terroristic Act for his alleged role in Danny Jordan's death. He was scheduled for a bond hearing on October 21.
The case concluded nearly two years later. On August 13, 2026, Jeremiah Keundre Harris, then 20 years old, appeared in Lee County Circuit Court. He pleaded no contest to a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Danny Jordan. The court sentenced Harris to 20 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections. The case was officially resolved as of August 2026.
