Gary Fitzgerald, a 44-year-old Black/African American man, was killed on January 9, 2014, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Public memorial records confirm his death by gunfire on that date in the city where he lived.
According to contemporaneous local reporting summarized by case aggregators, the shooting happened at his apartment in the early hours of the morning. Fitzgerald had reportedly gone to his front door after a knock; gunfire followed, leaving him mortally wounded near the doorway.
It was noted as one of the city’s earliest homicides of that year, drawing detectives to canvass for clues while the neighborhood woke to news of violence on a weekday morning.
In the months that followed, Little Rock police sought tips from the public in a number of 2014 homicides that remained open. Available public reporting from the time does not reflect any arrests announced in connection with Fitzgerald’s killing, and the case appears among the unsolved slayings that investigators continued to highlight while asking witnesses to come forward.
