The man arrested last year after a wild crosstown shooting spree left three dead, four wounded and a community rattled was arrested today for one of the murders that took place that day.
Davis Jones, 32, of Little Rock, was arrested today in the murder of 58-year-old Dewayne Thompson of College Station.
Jones was charged Thursday with capital murder and is being held at the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility without bond. Davis had been held in the Arkansas Department of Correction but was transported to the county jail for the arrest in the Thompson case, according to Lt. Cody Burk of the Sheriff’s Office.
On August 13 and 14, multiple police agencies responded to 17 shootings across the Little Rock area. The shootings left a man dead on Rodney Parham Road and another killed inside a Valero gas station on Mabelvale Cutoff in addition. Thompson was shot at the intersection of 3M Road and Frazier Pike.
Many of the shootings over the course of 26 hours took place from a moving vehicle and targeted other moving vehicles. Jones was eventually stopped when state troopers used a “controlled collision” to stop his vehicle.
The city of Little Rock formed a unified command with the Arkansas State Police and the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office to stop the shooting spree.
It is unclear exactly how many of the 17 shootings that weekend are attributable to Jones.
According to the press release from the sheriff’s office today, on August 14, deputies responded to a call at the intersection of 3M Road and Frazier Pike where they found Thompson with an apparent gunshot wound. Thompson was transported to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where he later died.
Detectives found a video of Thompson being followed by a gray 2018 Mercedes Benz before he was shot.