Authorities have identified the man who was struck three times in a drive-by shooting in Little Rock on Monday night and said it happened while the victim was driving a car with a woman and a 12-year-old girl also in the vehicle.
Officers were sent shortly before 5 p.m. to Arkansas Children's Hospital to respond to a person injured in a shooting, according to a police report.
At the hospital, they found 35-year-old Brandon White of North Little Rock suffering from gunshot wounds to the left side of his chest, his left elbow and his left leg, according to a police report.
A 30-year-old North Little Rock woman at the hospital told police that she and a 12-year-old girl were riding with White in her black 2001 Lexus GS near the intersection of Wright Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
The woman was in the front passenger seat and heard gunshots ring out, she told police. She reportedly said she watched White, who was driving, duck down and throw himself into the back of the vehicle.
The woman said she then jumped into the driver's seat and drove White to the hospital, the report said. He was listed in stable condition Monday night.
The 12-year-old girl, who was sitting in the back passenger seat, told police she saw shots being fired from the front passenger seat of a black mid-2000s Honda Accord. The girl did not get a good look at the shooter, the report said.
Several bullet holes were found in the front and back driver's side doors of the Lexus. No suspect was named on the report.
Last year, Little Rock police responded to two shootings in which children who were riding in vehicles got caught in the crossfire. Toddler Ramiya Reed was shot and killed while riding in the back seat of a vehicle with her mother Nov. 22. Deshaun Rushing and Larry Jackson were both arrested in May on capital murder charges.
And Dec. 17, 3-year-old Acen King was fatally shot in the back seat of a Dodge Charger being driven by his grandmother. Gary Holmes was charged in the death, which was described by police as a “road rage” killing.
More recently, a 7-year-old boy was wounded in a drive-by shooting June 27. The boy was not the intended target, police said. Three people were arrested in that case.
It wasn't clear how close the bullets in the Monday night shooting came to hitting the 12-year-old girl. Neither her nor the woman in the car was injured.
“You don’t want anybody getting shot, but you don’t want want people who aren’t the intended target getting hit, especially when it’s a child,” Moore said, adding later: "[The 12-year-old] happened to be in that car. I don't know if the people shooting would have cared one way or another.”
