Tavorrye Whitaker-Lemon, 24, a Black male, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of April 29, 2020, on the 2900 block of Romine Road in Little Rock. Police were called after a 911 caller reported hearing several gunshots and seeing someone down in a driveway. Responding officers arrived just after 2:30 a.m. and found Whitaker-Lemon suffering from multiple gunshot wounds; medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
His body was taken to the state crime lab for autopsy as detectives secured the area and began piecing together what had happened.
As investigators worked the scene, they learned a second man, later identified as Juneau Willis, had also been shot. He had left the area and gone to a house on Dorset Drive to seek help. Detectives were able to briefly speak with him about being with Whitaker-Lemon on Romine Road when the gunfire erupted before he was taken to Baptist Hospital for treatment. Both men’s vehicles were impounded and transported to the department’s crime-scene bay to be examined for evidence, a step that suggested detectives were looking for ballistic clues and any traces that could clarify how the confrontation unfolded.
Public records and memorial postings later confirmed Whitaker-Lemon’s identity and the date of his death, anchoring the case in the city’s tally of gun homicides that spring. An obituary published in Arkansas noted his full name—Tavorrye Malik Whitaker-Lemon—and his age, while a national gun-violence memorial listed him among those killed by gunfire on April 29, 2020, in Little Rock. Together these records framed a portrait of a young man whose life ended abruptly on a residential street before sunrise.
In the aftermath, authorities did not announce any arrests or identify suspects linked to the shooting in their initial releases and coverage. Contemporary reporting described the investigation as active and developing, with police processing vehicles, awaiting autopsy findings, and seeking further information to determine who fired and why. No subsequent official updates indicating an arrest or charges in Whitaker-Lemon’s killing were found in publicly accessible reports tied to the case.
