Police are investigating after a 53-year-old woman was found dead in a Pine Bluff street early Wednesday morning, authorities said.
Officers were called to the intersection of 24th Avenue and Linden Street in response to a report that shots had been fired and that someone was lying in the street, according to a news release by Pine Bluff police.
Police identified the woman as Celestine Holder of Pine Bluff Wednesday afternoon.
When police arrived on scene around 12:30 a.m., they found Holder dead in the west lane of 24th Avenue, authorities said.
The State Crime Lab was performing an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of her death, police said.
Authorities said they’re investigating Holder’s death as a homicide, the city’s third so far in 2019.
No suspects were named and no arrests had been made at the time of the release.