Pine Bluff police investigating city's 3rd homicide of 2016

Travis Price, 35, of Pine Bluff
Travis Price, 35, of Pine Bluff

Pine Bluff police are looking for the group of people who authorities said entered a home Saturday morning and killed one man in an attempted robbery, a spokesman for the police department said.

Police were called just before 1 a.m. Saturday to 1900 S. Poplar St., where they found 26-year-old Andre Eason dead on the floor of the home, according to a news release from the police department.

Witnesses reported that a group of people entered the home and demanded money. Several shots were fired, and Eason was killed, officer Richard Wegner said.

Police identified one of the shooters as 35-year-old Travis Price, who is wanted on a capital murder charge.

An investigation to determine the other shooters is ongoing, Wegner said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Pine Bluff Police Department at (870) 730-2090 or (870) 541-5300.

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