ShotSpotter Expert Testimony Reinforces Digital Evidence in Murder Trial

On May 28, 2022, Nijah Alexander drove from Pine Bluff to Little Rock, Arkansas, to take his family to the Little Rock Zoo. Unbeknownst to him, 18-year-old Kenjata Daniels Jr., a rival with an ongoing dispute with Alexander, followed the family’s vehicle from Pine Bluff. Near the zoo, Daniels opened fire on the vehicle, discharging thirteen 7.62x39mm rounds. Alexander’s 7-year-old niece, Chloe, was struck and killed. Daniels first went to Bryant and picked up two of his friends. LRPD Detectives located his car in Bryant, then initiated a traffic stop that led to the chase and crash once they reentered Pulaski County. He was charged with capital murder, nine counts of terroristic act, and fleeing. No eyewitnesses could identify Daniels as the shooter, leaving the Little Rock Police Department and the Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office to build a case on circumstantial and digital evidence.

Investigators assembled a body of evidence that placed Daniels within meters of the shell casings recovered at the scene at the precise moment of the shooting. Cell site location data, GPS records, and communication data, license plate reader photographs, and Nijah Alexander’s own description of the vehicle that had trailed him all corroborated the ShotSpotter report, establishing a single, consistent timeline that pointed to Daniels as the shooter. SoundThinking expert witness Paul Greene provided forensic testimony and a Detailed Forensic Report, which allowed the prosecutor to cross-reference the ShotSpotter data with the timing and location evidence pulled from Daniels’ phone and the physical evidence at the scene. That report and testimony gave prosecutors a precise, corroborated timeline to anchor the rest of their case. On June 12, 2026, a Pulaski County jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts. Daniels was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus an additional 55 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction.