Scott Allen Hendrix, a 50-year-old man, died on September 6, 2026, after being shot at a residence in Paragould, Arkansas. Officers with the Paragould Police Department were sent to the 900 block of East Court Street after receiving a report of a shooting. When they arrived, they found Hendrix suffering from a gunshot wound. Emergency personnel transported him to a local hospital for treatment, but his injuries proved fatal and he was pronounced dead. Although police initially described Hendrix as being from Paragould, his obituary identified his full name as Scott Allen Hendrix and said he was a resident of Colt, Arkansas.
The investigation quickly focused on Hendrix's roommate, 55-year-old Steven Van Sickle. Detectives with the Paragould Police Department's Investigation Division arrested Van Sickle in connection with the shooting. He was booked into the Greene County Detention Center on a charge of first-degree murder and was being held on a $1 million bond. Police did not publicly disclose what allegedly led to the shooting, whether an argument or other confrontation occurred beforehand, or what evidence investigators said connected Van Sickle to the fatal gunfire beyond identifying him as Hendrix's roommate and announcing his arrest.
Authorities said the case remained an active investigation and withheld additional details about the circumstances surrounding Hendrix's death. The available reporting did not identify another suspect or suggest that police were searching for anyone else in connection with the killing. Van Sickle's first-degree murder charge represented an accusation, and the reports available after the shooting did not describe a completed trial or conviction.
Hendrix was born on August 6, 1976, in Wynne, Arkansas, to William Gail Hendrix and Ellen Faye Holloway Hendrix. He earned an associate's degree from East Arkansas Community College in Forrest City and spent much of his working life as an automobile mechanic. His obituary remembered him as someone who enjoyed fishing, playing pool, riding four-wheelers and tractors, and spending time with his children. His death left family members and friends mourning a life that ended suddenly in a shooting that, in the weeks immediately afterward, remained under investigation while the man accused of killing him faced a first-degree murder charge.
