On the morning of March 21, 2020, the body of 27-year-old Kaylon Javon Luckadue, a Black male, was discovered in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Officers responded to a call at approximately 10:21 a.m. and found him lying on the ground near the roadway in the 1500 block of Arkansas Avenue. It was apparent that he had sustained significant physical trauma, and a homicide investigation was promptly initiated by the North Little Rock Police Department.
His body was then transported to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for an autopsy to determine the official cause of death.
The investigation into the death of the young father of two continued for several months. Detectives were able to identify two individuals connected to the case. On July 23, 2020, the North Little Rock Police Department, with assistance from the DEA Little Rock District Office, arrested 33-year-old Kevin Deyoung Brooks of Little Rock and 40-year-old Eric McFadden of North Little Rock for their involvement in Luckadue's death.
Both Brooks and McFadden were charged with Capital Murder and were held at the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility. This was not McFadden's first encounter with a murder charge; he had previously been charged in a 2016 killing, though those charges were later dropped. The investigation into Kaylon Luckadue's death was declared active and ongoing even after the arrests were made.
