Richard Allen Winston Jr., a 25-year-old Black/African American male, was discovered on November 14, 2014, slumped over in his vehicle in the driveway of his mother’s home on West 43rd Street in Little Rock. He had been shot in the abdomen, and the case quickly took on the weight of mystery and grief for his family. Reporting at the time noted that he was last associated with a location on Britts Lane earlier in the day; his mother later challenged the idea that he could have driven himself
from there to her home in his condition. The autopsy timing she described—around 1 p.m.—didn’t square with claims that others saw him alive closer to mid-afternoon, deepening her conviction that more than one person bore responsibility.
As the hours turned into years, details coalesced but resolution didn’t. His mother recounted that Richard had been with four friends, later labeled persons of interest by the family in conversations with local television reporters, and she repeatedly pleaded for accountability. Police described the case as an open investigation, and local coverage revisited the killing as an unsolved 2014 homicide. Memorial listings and community pages preserved the stark facts—his name, the date, the city—while his family kept vigil for answers.
No arrests have been announced in connection with Richard Winston Jr.’s death. Public appeals continued years after the shooting, with his mother urging those involved to come forward and disputing the narrative that he drove himself to where he was found. Independent case summaries that compile open-source material echo the same core points: the discovery in the family driveway, the abdominal gunshot wound, the disputed timeline, and the enduring absence of an identified suspect brought to justice.
