Pine Bluff police are investigating the city's seventh homicide this year after a teen was found dead near a driveway early Wednesday, officials said.
Officers were sent to 38th Avenue and Hazel Street at 3:22 a.m. after being notified that a person was on the ground in the roadway, spokesman Roy Gober said in a news release.
The victim, who was lying near the driveway of 2204 W. 38th Ave., was later identified as Parius Hicks, 18, the release said.
On Sunday, police found the body of Jordan Deshawn Turner, 29, in the middle of the road near Sixth and Myrtle streets. Turner had been shot once in the head and was the city's sixth homicide of the year.
There were 10 homicides in Pine Bluff in all of 2016.
Metro on 03/23/2017