A barber was shot and killed at midday Thursday in a parking lot that was said to be in front of his business.
Kendrell Laws, 35, was found lying in the parking lot near 3104 S. Catalpa St. just before noon when Pine Bluff police responded to a reported shooting.
Laws had suffered an apparent gunshot wound and was transported to Jefferson Regional Medical Center by EASI ambulance. Laws succumbed to his wound shortly after arrival and was pronounced dead at JRMC, according to a news release on the Police Department’s Facebook page.
Laws’ social media presence said he was the owner of Triple Faded Barbershop. There did not appear to be any signage associated with the barbershop at the small business complex, but another tenant in the building said Laws was a barber operating out of one of the office spaces.
Police said Thursday they have no suspect information to release. Anyone with information about this homicide is asked to call the detective office tip line at (870) 730-2106, the detective office at (870) 730-2090, or the dispatch center at (870) 541-5300.
This is the city’s sixth homicide of the year.