Unseld Nance Jr., 25, a Black male, was shot and killed just after midnight on September 9, 2018, in West Memphis, Arkansas. Police were called to the 1100 block of McCauley Cove around 12:30 a.m., where they found Nance lying in a neighbor’s driveway with multiple gunshot wounds; he died at the scene. A second victim, Nance’s cousin Toney Davis, was wounded in the leg but survived.
Investigators processing the scene later noted that marijuana, packaging materials, and firearms were found inside the residence associated with the incident, details that helped shape early theories about motive and the dynamics inside the home that night.
The timing and location align with independent incident tracking that recorded a single-fatality shooting in West Memphis on September 9, 2018. While such databases do not supply narrative context, they corroborate the date and city of the deadly gunfire and anchor the case in the broader pattern of gun violence documented that day.
Months later, developments emerged indicating that an eastern Arkansas man was charged with murder in connection with the shooting. Reporting at the time stated that the suspect was arrested and charged in late June 2019 in the death of Unseld Nance Jr., reflecting a significant turn in the investigation after the initial scene work and interviews. Publicly accessible summaries tie the charging update to the West Memphis case, though open sources do not readily provide the final disposition of the prosecution.
