Pine Bluff police are continuing their search for two men identified as suspects in the shooting death of another man Thursday night, and a third man was arrested after allegedly tampering with evidence.
Capt. Greg Shapiro said Robert Neal, 20, and Antonio Alexander, 28, both of Pine Bluff, should be considered armed and dangerous and a reward is available for information leading to their arrests.
They are wanted in the shooting death of Randall Blake Jr., 29, whose body was found in the 3100 block of Miramar Drive after police were sent to a report of a shooting at 9:43 p.m.
Jefferson County Coroner Chad Kelley said a doctor at Jefferson Regional Medical Center pronounced Blake dead at 12:55 a.m., and listed the cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds. The body was sent to the State Crime Laboratory at Little Rock for an autopsy.
The slaying was the eighth of the year in Jefferson County, and the seventh inside the Pine Bluff city limits.
Independent reporting for Pine Bluff & Jefferson County since 1879.
In a related investigation, Brandy Crutchfield, 23, was arrested on probable cause of tampering with evidence from the homicide.
During a court hearing for Crutchfield on Friday, Deputy Prosecutor Rik Ramsey said witnesses reported seeing a man later identified as Crutchfield who had taken a gun from the shooting victim and went into an apartment in the 3100 block of Miramar Drive with it.
Detective Larry Gailey reported that Crutchfield denied the allegations, telling police he did not see a gun.
Jefferson County District Judge Kim Bridgforth set a $5,000 bond for Crutchfield on the allegation of tampering with physical evidence and told him to come back to court July 6 at9 a.m.
Anyone with information about Neal or Alexander should contact the Detective Division at 730-2090 or call 9-1-1, and all calls will be kept confidential.
Anonymous tips can be submitted through the police department website at www.pbpd.org, or through their Facebook page.
To text a tip to detectives, text the word CRIMES, then put pbpd with the message.