Donald Williams, 19, a Black male, was shot on the evening of November 21, 2022, at a home on Martin Luther King Drive in Forrest City, Arkansas. He was airlifted for treatment but was later pronounced dead. Earlier that same night, in a separate shooting, 17-year-old Jerrick Holder was taken from a home on West Franklin Avenue to a hospital, where he also died. Local coverage at the time noted investigators had not determined whether the two crime scenes were connected.
Public records confirming Williams’s death on that date in Forrest City identify him by name and age, and memorial pages created soon after the killing mark his loss to gun violence. Incident listings compiled by national databases also record that two victims—Williams, 19, and Holder, 17—were killed in Forrest City on November 21, 2022, with Williams categorized as a male victim.
Authorities did not announce an arrest or publicly name a suspect in Williams’s killing in the immediate aftermath, and subsequent local reporting tied to the night’s shootings did not report any charges. Contemporary coverage simply relayed that police were investigating both scenes and had not said whether they were linked, leaving family and neighbors with more questions than answers.
