PHOTOS, VIDEOS: 1 dead, 1 hospitalized after Little Rock shooting, police say

Little Rock police are investigating a shooting at the Midtown Park Apartments complex on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, that left one person dead and one person injured.
Little Rock police are investigating a shooting at the Midtown Park Apartments complex on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, that left one person dead and one person injured.

One person is dead and one is in the hospital after a shooting that stemmed from a possible robbery at a Little Rock apartment building Wednesday evening, police said.

At the scene, Lt. Steve McClanahan said officers were called to the Midtown Park Apartments at 6115 W. Markham St. shortly after 5:15 p.m. When they arrived, they found a black man with multiple gunshot wounds running from the building, he said.

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That man, believed to be in his late 20s or early 30s, was taken to a local hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening, McClanahan said.

Officers then went up the stairway at the building, which is across the street from Park Plaza Mall, and found a black man, also believed to be in his late 20s, with fatal gunshot wounds between the sixth and seventh floors, the spokesman said.

Police believe 20 shots were fired inside the stairwell. "We're fortunate" that just one person has died, McClanahan said.

Police are looking at robbery as the possible motive in the shooting, but McClanahan said it is unknown who the suspect and who the victim was.

The death is Little Rock's 18th homicide of the year. No further information was available Wednesday night.

Read Thursday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.

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