Pine Bluff police open homicide investigation, city's fourth of 2021

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 66-year-old man died of apparent gunshot wounds in Pine Bluff on Saturday afternoon after an argument, police said.

Officers responding to a call about gunshots at Beech Street Apartments, 2103 S. Beech St., near the center of the city found a man identified as Edson Jones on the ground near the back of the apartment complex's parking lot. The Jefferson County coroner's office pronounced Jones dead at the scene.

The other man involved in the argument had not been identified yet as of Saturday night, according to police.

This is the fourth homicide in Pine Bluff this year, authorities said.

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