Kenny Coleman, 57, male, Black/African American, was found dead alongside 52-year-old Charles Jones inside a small home on Miller Street in Jonesboro on the night of December 28, 2016. A relative discovered the bodies and ran to a neighbor’s house to call 911. Responding officers treated the scene as a double homicide; early statements from police and local outlets indicated both men appeared to have been shot, and their bodies were sent to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory for autopsy.
Police publicly identified the victims the following day and emphasized the men were acquaintances. The discovery drew a heavy response from the Jonesboro Police Department to the 200 block of Miller Street, as investigators processed the home and canvassed the neighborhood for witnesses or surveillance footage that might explain how the quiet house became the site of a fatal attack.
In the days immediately after the killings, authorities reported no suspect information and asked anyone with knowledge of the case to contact Jonesboro Crimestoppers. Subsequent listings and memorial pages have continued to record Coleman and Jones as victims of gun violence on that date in Jonesboro, without public notice of arrests or charges tied to the case. Available reporting provides no indication of an identified suspect or suspects, and no follow-up from police announcing an arrest has been found in later coverage.
