Sought in ’13 crime, LR teen flees police
Little Rock police officers swarmed a Midtown neighborhood Tuesday afternoon searching for a Hall High School student wanted on charges of attempted capital murder and robbery.
The 16-year-old was briefly detained by the school’s resource officer but bolted before detectives reached the school. According to a police incident report, he had been handcuffed about 2:47 p.m. but maneuvered the cuffs in front of his body, then jumped down a flight of stairs and ran from the building.
Hall High School and Forest Heights Middle School were locked down briefly, but students were eventually dismissed “without incident,” according to police spokesman Lt. Sidney Allen.
Little information was released about the case in which the student was purportedly involved.
“The incident happened in Little Rock last year,” Allen said, “but detectives are wanting to question him before they release which incident he is connected to.”
The student is described as black, 5 feet 6 inches tall, has braided hair and weighs 130 pounds. He was wearing a black and green shirt and dark khaki cargo pants. He had not been caught late Tuesday.
Student at UALR hit in face, robbed
A University of Arkansas at Little Rock graduate student was attacked and robbed on campus Monday, a university spokesman said.
The student was outside the physics and astronomy building at 2801 S. University Ave. when a man approached her shortly before 11:30 a.m., according to Bob Allen, the university’s vice chancellor for finance and administration. The man struck her in the face, stole her cellphone and ran off.
Little Rock police and the UALR Department of Public Safety responded to the scene. The woman declined to be taken to a hospital, according to Allen.
Police searched the area for the attacker, but no arrests had been made late Tuesday.
A description of the attacker was not available. The university’s campus alert system, which notifies UALR students and employees of safety threats via text message and email, was not used in the robbery because there was “no indication of an additional threat on campus,” Allen said.
Arkansas, Pages 10 on 01/22/2014