Eulius Williams, 32, male, was found late on the night of December 20, 2023, lying in the parking lot of the Rose City Shopping Center at 4109 East Broadway in North Little Rock after suffering at least one gunshot wound. Moments earlier, around 11:41 p.m., officers had been flagged down by a man who said he’d been robbed at gunpoint in the same lot; as some officers detained and interviewed a person matching the robber’s description, others discovered Williams wounded on the pavement.
He was rushed to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.
Police publicly identified the victim as Eulius Williams of North Little Rock in a news release two days later, tying his killing to the events that began with the reported armed robbery in the Rose City lot. The sequence the department outlined—robbery report, suspect stop, and the nearly simultaneous discovery of the mortally wounded victim—set the parameters of the investigation as detectives processed the scene and canvassed for witnesses.
Detectives arrested 22-year-old Nathan Whitmore in connection with the case and booked him into the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility without bond. Prosecutors charged Whitmore with capital murder, criminal attempt to commit capital murder, and aggravated robbery, and he was scheduled for an initial court appearance on Saturday, December 23. Authorities emphasized the investigation was ongoing even after the arrest.
Police asked anyone with information to contact the North Little Rock Police Department’s tip line or reach out to detectives as they worked to reconstruct what led to the gunfire in the shopping center lot that winter night.
