Jury selection set in slaying of officer
Starting today jurors will be selected in the trial of a man accused of shooting a Pine Bluff police officer to death nearly three years ago.
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Starting today jurors will be selected in the trial of a man accused of shooting a Pine Bluff police officer to death nearly three years ago.
A Pine Bluff man arrested on federal gun charges after the October 2020 slaying of a police officer at a Pine Bluff motel was sentenced to 61 months in federal prison on two charges Thursday.
Sabrina Washington went through police training with Kevin Collins and was hired with him at the Pine Bluff Police Department the same day in June 2015, more than five years before Collins was shot to death in a shootout while working an investigation at the Econo Lodge motel.
Dornetta "Donna" Hobbs said she knew nothing about Pine Bluff's plans to convert the old main library into a police training center in her son Kevin Collins' memory until it was announced.
At 12:05 p.m. today, there will be a short ceremony in front of the Pine Bluff Police Department headquarters in memory of Detective Kevin Collins, who was killed a year ago a little after noon.