Pulaski County Deputies Arrest Capital Murder Suspect After Five-Year Manhunt

Jamall Warren spent nearly five years evading accountability for the capital murder of 19-year-old Mekhyree Hammonds. That ended March 25, 2026, when Pulaski County deputies announced Warren, now 28, was in custody, closing one of the longer active fugitive cases tied to a 2021 homicide in the Little Rock area.

Hammonds' body was discovered on March 30, 2021, at a home in the 3600 block of 3M Road near West Line Street in Pulaski County. Investigators developed Warren as a suspect in the killing, but by the time authorities moved to bring him in, he had disappeared into the corridor between Little Rock and Atlanta, a route deputies later confirmed he was using to stay ahead of pursuit.

Warren was not the only suspect in Hammonds' death. In June 2025, deputies arrested Trey Davis, 27, at 2 Par Circle in Little Rock on a capital murder charge tied to the same March 30, 2021 killing. That same weekend, the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office issued a public lookout bulletin for Warren, flagging him as armed and dangerous and confirming he may have been accompanied by another person during his movements between Arkansas and Georgia. The U.S. Marshals Service Eastern Arkansas Fugitive Task Force joined the search effort, elevating the case from a local manhunt to a federal fugitive operation.

None of that produced Warren's arrest for another nine months. He was finally taken into custody last Wednesday and is now held at the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility on a $750,000 bond, a figure consistent with the severity of a capital charge in Arkansas.

The prosecution faces challenges familiar to any homicide case that goes cold for years. Evidence that seemed straightforward in 2021 now requires documented chain-of-custody records stretching across five years, and eyewitness accounts will face scrutiny over memory reliability. Defense attorneys in cases of this length routinely press for full discovery on evidence preservation, and with a capital charge, both sides will likely invest heavily in pretrial litigation before the case ever reaches a jury.

For the Hammonds family, Warren's arrest closes the fugitive chapter of a case that has now consumed five years without full resolution. With Davis already in custody and Warren now booked, Pulaski County prosecutors are positioned to move both defendants toward trial in the death of a 19-year-old whose killing sat unsolved for most of his absence.