Mackenzie Lee Asarisi, a 19-year-old female from Monticello, Arkansas, died in the early morning hours of May 25, 2026, after a domestic disturbance at a home in Monticello ended in gunfire. Online obituary information says she passed away at home that Monday, while police and news reports described the incident as a fatal shooting that left three people dead: Mackenzie, her grandmother Sherry Ann Brown, and Keyshawn Laron Daniels.
The first public reports described Monticello police
officers being sent to a residence at about 4:00 a.m. after a 911 call reported a domestic altercation. When officers arrived, they found three people suffering from gunshot wounds. Emergency medical personnel responded, but the Drew County coroner later pronounced all three deceased. Police said the case was handled by detectives with the Monticello Police Department Criminal Investigation Division, and officials stated there was no ongoing threat to the public.
As the victims’ names were released, the tragedy became clearer. Mackenzie was identified alongside Sherry Brown and Keyshawn Laron Daniels. Family members described the incident as a murder-suicide, and later reports characterized it as a double murder-suicide connected to domestic violence. KATV reported that family members said the victims were a 19-year-old girl, her grandmother, and the girl’s boyfriend, and that Mackenzie’s great-grandfather was also inside the home during the incident but was not injured.
Mackenzie’s obituary portrayed her as a recent graduate whose life was just beginning. She was a 2025 Monticello High School honor graduate and had been named an Arkansas Academic Scholar. She was involved with Monticello United Pentecostal Church, including youth church camp, and was remembered by loved ones as smart, funny, protective, deeply caring, and the “mother hen” of her friend group. The obituary said she loved her siblings and cousins, cared for others naturally, and had a personality marked by strong opinions, problem-solving, laughter, and tenderness.
Sherry Brown, Mackenzie’s grandmother, was also killed in the home. Sherry’s obituary said she worked as a chef for the Monticello Senior Citizens Center and had previously spent more than 20 years working for Aramark at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Her obituary described her as someone whose life centered on caring for family and said she lost her life protecting Mackenzie. A GoFundMe organized by Magen Polk for Sherry and Mackenzie’s memorial expenses said the two were “brutally murdered” in their Monticello home and that the family was devastated by the shock of losing both of them.
Publicly available reports did not describe any arrest, court appearance, criminal charges, trial, or conviction connected to Mackenzie’s death. That appears to be because investigators and news reports treated the case as a double murder-suicide, with Keyshawn Laron Daniels also found dead at the scene. Some online summaries identify Daniels as the suspected shooter who killed Mackenzie and Sherry before turning the gun on himself, but the police-linked public reports found in available sources primarily identify him as one of the three deceased and describe the overall case as a murder-suicide or apparent domestic violence incident. Since Daniels was dead when authorities arrived, there was no surviving suspect to arrest or prosecute based on the public information available.
