Dashon Hawkins, a 32-year-old Black man from North Little Rock, was shot late on the morning of November 20, 2025, after police were called to the 4900 block of Arrowhead Place about a possible gunshot victim. North Little Rock officers arrived around 10:47 a.m. and found him suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He was rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment but did not survive, and detectives quickly classified the case as a homicide, securing the scene, collecting physical
evidence, and beginning interviews with potential witnesses in the neighborhood.
In the days that followed, authorities publicly identified Hawkins as the person killed in the Arrowhead Place shooting, confirming both his age and that he was a resident of North Little Rock. Coverage of the killing described how he was shot late on a Thursday morning on that residential block, with one obituary-style piece referring to him as a beloved father whose death left his family and community grieving. Online memorials, including an entry on a national gun-violence remembrance site, note that he was “lost to gun violence” on November 20, 2025, in North Little Rock, and invite friends and relatives to share photos, memories, and details about his life, underscoring that he is being remembered as more than just a crime statistic.
As investigators worked the case, they identified three men as suspects in Hawkins’s killing. Detectives named 24-year-old Ladarin Franklin, 21-year-old Jabarri Holmes, and 27-year-old Kerby Clemmons, and obtained active warrants for each of them on charges of capital murder and aggravated robbery in connection with what police called the “Arrowhead homicide.” According to police, the shooting on Arrowhead Place was the incident at the center of those charges, and the three men were described as being directly tied to the events that led to Hawkins’s death. Initial appeals to the public emphasized that all three were being actively sought and urged anyone with information about their whereabouts to contact detectives.
A later update from regional news confirmed that one of the suspects, Holmes, turned himself in to the Jacksonville Police Department on the evening of November 26, 2025. Subsequent local reporting noted that two additional suspects connected to the Arrowhead Place homicide had also turned themselves in, indicating that all three men named by detectives were ultimately in custody rather than still being sought on the original warrants. Even with those arrests, police have continued to describe the case as an active investigation, and they have kept their tip line and detective contact information open, signaling that they are still gathering information about the circumstances and possible motives surrounding the killing of Hawkins and any broader context for the alleged capital murder and aggravated robbery.
