Roddrick Raphael Crowell, a 31-year-old Black/African American male, was shot in the early hours of February 5, 2023, inside the Riverside Courts housing complex in Camden, Arkansas. Officers were dispatched around 2:17 a.m. and found him with a single gunshot wound; he was taken to Ouachita County Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Detectives moved quickly that morning. A man named Nicko Freeman of Camden was arrested in connection with the killing and booked on charges that included second-degree murder, possession of a firearm by a certain person, and committing a terroristic act. According to reporting on the case, Crowell identified Freeman as the shooter before he died. While the arrest established a primary suspect, subsequent court outcomes were not immediately available in the sources reviewed.
