Pine Bluff woman charged with murder

FILE - A Pine Bluff police vehicle is shown in this 2009 file photo.
FILE - A Pine Bluff police vehicle is shown in this 2009 file photo.

A Pine Bluff woman faces a charge of first-degree murder in a Monday shooting, police announced Wednesday.

Pine Bluff police arrested Leashebia Davis, 39, on Wednesday afternoon in the shooting death of Elvis Kendal, 38.

Officers said they found Kendal suffering from gunshot wounds in a car at the intersection of West 33rd Avenue and South Hazel Street shortly after 6 p.m. Monday.

He was transported to Jefferson Regional Medical Center, where he later died of his wounds.

The city has had 10 homicides so far this year, four in the month of April and two this month. Pine Bluff Police Chief Kelvin Sergeant said the homicides appear unrelated.

Read Thursday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.

This story has been updated.

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