5-hour standoff ends with 1 dead
A five-hour standoff ended late Thursday when police entered a south Little Rock home and found a man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a Little Rock police spokesman said.
The standoff began when members of the agency's violent criminals apprehension team tried to serve a first-degree battery warrant at a home in the 11200 block of Warnix Road, which is off Arch Street Pike and not far from the department's training center.
The man refused to exit the home and the team, believing the man to be armed, retreated and called out the agency's special weapons and tactics team about 5 p.m., said Lt. Sidney Allen, the spokesman.
Officers had been negotiating with the man before they entered the residence at 10:15 p.m. The man's name was withheld until family members are notified, Allen said.
Pizza deliveryman gashed in robbery
Police are investigating the robbery of a pizza delivery driver at a Little Rock apartment complex Wednesday night.
Officers responded shortly after 9 p.m. to CHI St. Vincent Infirmary, where Papa John's employee Payton Pomtree was being treated for a cut. Pomtree, 21, told police he had delivered a pizza to Sturbridge Apartments at 1400 Old Forge Road when someone with a knife walked up and demanded money, according to a police report.
Pomtree said a fight ensued and the man cut his hand, the report states. The robber fled with an unknown amount of cash.
No arrests had been made late Thursday.
Police seek 2 men in robbery at deli
Little Rock police were seeking two men suspected of trying to rob a restaurant at gunpoint Wednesday.
Officers responded about 7:27 p.m. to Schlotzky's Deli at 11815 Mara Lynn Road. An employee told police that he'd watched on a surveillance camera when two armed men approach the store. One man had a rifle that resembled an AK-47, according to a police report. The other had a gun in his waistband.
The men tried to open the door, but it was locked. They fled northeast on Mara Lynn Road.
The men are both described as black, 5-foot-9 and about 170 pounds. They wore black shoes and jackets and blue gloves.
Two men also robbed the deli Saturday night and struck two employees with a rifle butt.
Man, 18, arrested in theft of shoes
An 18-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on warrants in connection with an armed robbery that netted a pair of Air Jordan sneakers and $15 earlier this week.
Jamien Phillips, who lists home as his grandmother's address in College Station but also is listed as homeless, was charged with aggravated robbery and theft in the incident, which occurred Sunday in a neighborhood off Mabelvale Pike, according to an arrest disposition report.
A 17-year-old boy told officers he met Phillips to exchange the shoes for an iPhone. Instead, a 16-year-old boy with Phillips pulled a gun and took the shoes and cash, police said.
Phillips was being held in lieu of $35,000 bond Thursday night in the Pulaski County jail.
Metro on 01/23/2015