Teen jailed in death of man found outside popular barbecue restaurant

PINE BLUFF -- Pine Bluff police arrested a suspect Wednesday in the shooting of a man whose body was found last week outside a popular barbecue restaurant.

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Mark Anthony Carrington, 19, was arrested in the shooting of Allen Lampkin, whose body was found around 4 a.m. June 20 inside a vehicle in the parking lot of Kibb's Bar-B-Que No. 2 on the 1400 block of South Blake Street.

According to a news release, physical evidence and interviews led to Carrington's identification as a suspect in Lampkin's slaying.

Carrington will appear before a judge for a probable-cause hearing this morning.

Lampkin's death was the fourth homicide this year in Pine Bluff. A fifth person, James Murry, 44, was fatally shot two days later.

State Desk on 06/30/2016

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