LITTLE ROCK — The Little Rock teenager who was shot and killed by a Little Rock police officer early Sunday morning after a reported car break-in was awaiting his initial appearance in a trial connected to a June carjacking.
According to police reports, Bobby Moore, 15, of 11214 Mesa Drive was one of four teenagers who pointed a gun at a woman on a hospital parking ramp on June 24 and took her Cadillac.
He was arrested later that morning and charged as an adult in the case, according to court records.
Moore, who had attended Hamilton High School Learning Academy, was pronounced dead early Sunday, according to reports, after he was shot by officer Josh Hastings, who said Moore was the driver of a car that was fleeing the scene of a suspected breaking-and-entering at the Shadow Lake Apartments at 13111 W. Markham St.
Hastings told detectives that Moore drove the vehicle at him and that he “feared for his life,” which prompted him to open fire.
The circumstances of the shooting are the focus of criminal and internal police investigations, and Hastings remained on paid administrative leave Wednesday.
In the June case, according to Little Rock investigators, Moore was with a group of teens seen walking around the campus of St. Vincent’s Infirmary Medical Center in Little Rock around 6:15 a.m.
Latonya Jones, 36, pulled into the parking deck at the hospital and saw four teens approaching her, but “she did not think anything of them because she thought they were selling something,” police reports said.
As she stepped out of her 2006 Cadillac STS, one of the teens pointed a handgun at her head and told her to give up her keys.
The teens piled into the car and took off, leaving the parking deck, police said.
Police contacted OnStar, which tracked the vehicle to the area of West 11th and Peyton streets.
When officers caught up with the car, the teens bailed out, leaving the vehicle in drive, and the car continued on and struck a house at South Maple Street, police said.
Officers reportedly tracked the teens to a nearby house and found them in a back bedroom.
Moore, according to police, was hiding under a blanket in the bedroom closet. Police found two pistols stashed in a freezer.
The teens made their first appearances in Little Rock District Court on June 25, where they were charged as adults with aggravated robbery and felony theft of property.
According to P ulaski County jail records, bail for the four teens was set at $100,000 a piece.
On July 2, Moore was released from the county jail on bond.
The other three teens remained in jail and were charged as adults in the robbery. They are Anton Holland, 16; Davion Dean, 15; and Traymain James, 15. The three were still in jail Wednesday night.
Charges of aggravated robbery, felony theft of property, as well as two counts of criminal mischief where filed against Moore in the 4th Division of the Pulaski County Circuit Court, officials said. A trial date had not been set.
Moore’s death was the 33rd homicide in Little Rock this year, and the fourth homicide involving a police officer as the shooter.
Meanwhile, officers involved in the Friday slaying of Donald O’Fallon, 43, at his 1107 Gillette St. home, remain on paid administrative leave.
According to police, officers James Anderson and Matthew Hoffine shot O’Fallon when he pointed a handgun at them Friday afternoon.
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