LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Over a year has gone by and a Little Rock family still has no answers to the person or people responsible for their loved one’s death.
The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office and the family of Jeremiah Brown hope a break in the case is a phone call away. The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office said the homicide happened on New Year's Day of 2022 after Brown’s body was found in the trunk of a burning car.
Deputies were called to the 14000 block of Highway 300 near in Roland around 6 a.m. in reference to a vehicle fire, according to the sheriff's office. Lt. Cody Burk with the office says once they put out the fire they found a person in the trunk who was later identified with DNA as Jeremiah Brown, 24.
However, Burk said they know where Brown's body was found was not where he died.
“The person [investigators suspect Brown was with] left possibly in another vehicle and two [suspect] people were involved in this that we think,” Burk said.
Brown’s mother LaTanya Brown says when she received the autopsy report her devastation grew.
“They shot him in the head...