LITTLE ROCK — North Little Rock police on Monday named a 17-year-old youth as a “person of interest” in the fatal shooting of a woman at a housing project the night before.
The North Little Rock teenager, Jeremiah Glasper, is wanted for questioning in the shooting of Danielle Moore, 21, at Moore’s apartment at the Shorter Gardens housing project at 800 N. Beech St., North Little Rock police Sgt. Brian Dedrick said.
Police responding to a report of a shooting at 6:15 p.m. Sunday found Moore inside the apartment suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. She was taken to UAMS Medical Center in Little Rock, where she was pronounced dead at 6:53 p.m.
Dedrick said Monday that he didn’t have information on what led to the shooting or why detectives want to question Glasper.
The shooting was North Little Rock’s first homicide of the year and came on the same date as the city’s first homicide last year.
On Feb. 12, 2011, Jimmy Lee Butler, 49, was fatally shot during a fight at a North Little Rock nightclub. No arrests have been made in his killing.
In 2011, North Little Rock had 13 homicides, compared with nine in 2010.
Arkansas, Pages 8 on 02/14/2012