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Symphony's trailer taken, police say

Little Rock police are investigating the early Monday morning theft of a trailer containing $60,000 worth of musical equipment belonging to the Little Rock Wind Symphony.

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According to a police report, Brenda Barber, executive director of the symphony, was called Monday morning by David Beach, facilities manager for Second Presbyterian Church, 600 Pleasant Valley Drive in Little Rock, and told the trailer was missing from a parking lot at the church where the symphony often performs.

Beach told police he reviewed church surveillance video footage and saw a vehicle pulling the trailer from the parking lot at 1:57 a.m.

The vehicle is described as a white, 2000 Chevrolet pickup. The trailer is described as a white, 12-feet-by-7-feet, 1997 Featherlite with license plate AA206536.

Girl hurt in shooting at south LR school

Little Rock police responded to a shooting in south Little Rock on Tuesday night.

Police received the shooting call at 8:28 p.m. and responded to Wakefield Elementary School, which was closed at the time, at 75 Westminister Drive. According to police on the scene, the victim was a girl who had been shot at least once in the abdomen. The victim was transported to Arkansas Children's Hospital. Her condition was unknown Tuesday night.

No description of the shooter or shooters was available at the time.

Gunman wounds 2 during robbery try

Two people were shot in an attempted robbery Monday afternoon in Little Rock, police reported.

Officers responded about 4:36 p.m. to 13120 Quail Creek Road east of Geyer Springs Road. They found James Cribbs, 28, lying on the ground in front of a house. He had been shot in the arm and chest.

Officers found Francisco Lozano, 19, and Arturo Lozano, 26, hiding behind the house, according to a police incident report. The younger Lozano had been shot in the finger.

Cribbs and Francisco Lozano were hospitalized with injuries that weren't life-threatening, police said.

Arturo Lozano was interviewed by police. Detectives determined that the three men had been parked in front of the residence in a GMC Terrain when an armed man demanded their money and fired several shots into the vehicle.

Further circumstances of the shooting were unclear.

Officers recovered a powdered substance wrapped in cellophane from the scene, the report says.

Police impounded the SUV as evidence. No charges had been filed and no arrests had been made in the incident late Tuesday.

An investigation was ongoing.

Metro on 12/03/2014

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