LITTLE ROCK — LR man shot in arm on his way to work
While on his way to work Monday morning, a Little Rock man was shot in the arm by a rifle-toting robber, police said.
Luis Morales, 43, of 9709 W. Base Line Road, was in his car at 6:15 a.m. and getting ready to leave when an unknown man in a mask came up to his car and broke the driver’s-side window with his rifle, according to police reports.
The suspect told Morales to hand over his wallet and then opened fire into the car, striking Morales once in the right shoulder.
Police said the suspect fled on foot toward the Stonecrest Apartments at 9700 Base Line Road, but he didn’t get away with anything of value.
Morales was taken to UAMS Medical Center, where staff said his wounds were not life-threatening.
The gunman is described as a 6-foot-tall black man weighing 160 pounds and wearing dark pants, a brown sweater and glasses.
The shooting remains under investigation.
River Market rape reported Saturday
A woman told police she was raped in a River Market parking lot early Saturday morning.
According to police reports, the woman and her sister approached officers in the River Market about 2:15 a.m. to say she had just been sexually assaulted at 325 President Clinton Ave.
The woman told officers she met a man named Shawn while at Willie D’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Piano Bar, and she agreed to go with him to his car, reports said.
Once in the car, the man started touching her, even though she told him to stop, reports said.
He then climbed on top of her and sexually assaulted her, letting her leave without further injury once he was done, she said.
The suspect is described as a 28-year-old, 6-foot, 170-pound black man who wore blue jeans, black boots, a tan shirt and a red hat, and drove a gray colored four-door vehicle.
LR library statue damaged Saturday
Little Rock police are investigating a Saturday morning act of vandalism that damaged a statue treasured by staff at the Central Arkansas Library System’s main library, according to library officials.
Spokesman Susan Gele said that about 2 a.m., three unidentified men were spotted approaching the statue by library surveillance cameras.
Gele said it took the three suspects four minutes to knock the spherical limestone statue off its base.
The statue, Fusion, 2009, was erected in 2009 in memory of a longtime security guard, Vernon Johnson.
Gele said that the statue has been sent back to its creator for repairs but she did not know how much it would cost to restore.
Arkansas, Pages 11 on 11/27/2012