ON 07/05/2025 AT APPROXIMATELY 01:21AM THE PHILLIPS COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE WAS DISPATCHED TO 388 PHILLIPS COUNTY ROAD 113 IN POPLAR GROVE IN REF: TO MALE VICTIM BEING SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES AND WHILE ENROUTE DEPUTIES WERE ADVISED OF ANOTHER MALE VICTIM BEING TRANSPORTED BY POV TO THE HELENA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER WITH GUNSHOT WOUND FROM THE POPLAR GROVE AREA.
UPON ARRIVAL ON SCENE ON 113 ROAD MAJOR BRIAN HOLLOWAY WAS ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE MALE SUBJECT AS WILLIAM HENDERSON WHO WAS SUFFERING FROM MULTIPLE GUNSHOT WOUNDS IN WHICH HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HELENA REGIONAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DECEASED BY DEPUTY CORONOR PHILLIP TAYLOR.
WHILE PROCESSING THE SCENE IN POPLAR GROVE WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE ARKANSAS STATE POLICE INVESTIGATORS WERE ADVISED THAT THE SECOND VICTIM SHOT IN POPLAR GROVE WAS NICHOLAS JOHNSON WHO WAS AIRLIFTED TO MEMPHIS BY PAFFORD IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
DURING THE INVESTIGATION AND PROCESSING OF THE SCENE IN POPLAR GROVE A SUSPECT WAS IDENTIFIED IN WHICH DACORICK FARR WAS ARRESTED BY INVESTIGATORS AND TRANSPORTED TO THE PHILLIPS COUNTY DETENTION CENTER FOR PROCESSING.

   DECORICK FARR IS CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND HIS BOND HAS BEEN SET AT $500,000.00