On the afternoon of November 2, 2025, 26-year-old Treveon Jones, a male resident of Stuttgart, Arkansas, walked into JB Bryant Park on what should have been a quiet Sunday, only a short distance from his grandfather’s home. A little after 2 p.m., gunfire shattered the calm of the neighborhood park, where families and children had been enjoying the day.
Jones was struck by at least one bullet, gravely wounded in the middle of a community space where people had gathered for ordinary weekend routines. Neighbors helped rush him from the park to a nearby hospital, but he was pronounced dead shortly afterward, and police soon confirmed that the death was the result of a shooting at JB Bryant Park in Stuttgart.
From his front yard, Jones’s grandfather, Charles Jones, watched the scene unfold in real time. He later told reporters that he saw someone firing a gun near the park and at first thought it was just gunfire into the air, not realizing his own grandson had been hit. Only when a woman drove up and told him that his grandson had been shot did the horror of what he had witnessed become clear. Neighbors described children and other parkgoers scattering for safety as the shots rang out, an ordinary Sunday at the park turning into a scene of panic. Jones was loaded into a truck and taken to the hospital before first responders could arrive, and his grandfather recalled seeing so much blood that he understood immediately how serious the wound was; his grandson died shortly after reaching medical care.
In the days that followed, Jones was remembered publicly not just as a victim, but as a son, grandson, father, and friend. An obituary published for “Treveon Jones” listed his birth date as September 3, 1999, confirming that he was 26 at the time of his death and noting that he was from Stuttgart. It recorded that he was predeceased by a stepgrandmother and his father, but left behind a large extended family: his grandfather Charles Jones of Stuttgart, his grandmother Joyce Lewis, his mother Andrea Jones, multiple siblings, and two young daughters. Friends and relatives were invited to visitation at Relerford Funeral Home on November 14, followed by a funeral service the next day at Victors Empowerment Center and burial at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, a sequence of events that marked the community’s formal farewell. Family and local coverage described him as a kind, people-oriented young man with a good heart, someone whose death left a wide circle of relatives and friends grieving.
While the family prepared to bury Jones, investigators worked to piece together what had happened in the park. On November 3, the Stuttgart Daily Leader reported that the Stuttgart Police Department and Arkansas State Police were jointly investigating a deadly shooting at JB Bryant Park, confirming that one person had been killed around 2 p.m. Sunday but initially withholding the victim’s name and any information about suspects. A day later, police publicly identified the victim as Treveon Jones and acknowledged that one suspect had already been taken into custody, though his name was not yet released because the case was considered active and ongoing. In statements carried by local outlets, Stuttgart police thanked multiple agencies for their assistance and expressed condolences to Jones’s family, asking anyone with information about the shooting to contact the department.
In the days that followed, the picture of the suspected gunman came into sharper focus. By November 10, the Stuttgart Police Department publicly identified Lemontae Thompson as the suspect who had been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Treveon Jones at JB Bryant Park, calling his arrest a significant step in the investigation and again crediting the cooperation of multiple law-enforcement agencies. Separate coverage from regional media detailed how Pine Bluff police and other agencies assisted in locating and apprehending Thompson on November 7 just outside the Pine Bluff city limits, after he was sought in connection with the November 2 homicide. Around the same time, the Arkansas County Sheriff’s Office inmate roster showed a “Thompson, Lemonte” booked on November 7, 2025, on charges including first-degree murder, engaging in violent criminal group activity, terroristic act, aggravated assault, and endangering the welfare of a minor, with bond set at $1,000,000. These entries indicate that Thompson was being held in county custody on serious felony counts tied to the shooting at JB Bryant Park.
Even after the arrest, law enforcement statements emphasized that the case remained an active investigation. Stuttgart police continued to request tips from the public and reiterated their sympathy for Jones’s family as they navigated their loss. Community and memorial sites added his name and date of death to the wider record of Americans lost to gun violence, while local funeral and news accounts kept his story rooted in Stuttgart—as a young man whose life was cut short in a city park on an autumn Sunday, and whose family now waits for the courts to determine what justice will look like for his killing.
