Little Rock police are investigating Monday morning after two women were found dead inside an SUV parked by a mobile home in southwest Little Rock.
Officers were called around 8:20 a.m. to a mobile home on Lot 50 of 11500 Chicot Road after a 911 caller told police there was a woman inside a vehicle “covered in blood,” Lt. Dana Jackson said at the scene.
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When police arrived, they found two adult white women dead inside a blue Ford Explorer parked near the back of the home, Jackson said. The four doors of the Explorer were ajar Monday morning and the back driver's-side door was stained with blood as crime scene officials ducked in and out to inspect the vehicle.
Jackson was unable to give additional information on the identity of the victims or say how the women died, saying that next of kin have yet to be notified.
The 911 caller was an employee of the mobile home park, which stretches across a web of residential streets off of Chicot Road in southwest Little Rock.
The white one-story trailer next to where the women were found had a “For Sale” sign in the window. Jackson said police spoke with the property owner, who informed authorities that the residence is supposed to be vacant.
Jackson could not say when the Explorer arrived at the home.
A man who lives next door to the mobile home said he has taken to sitting on a metal folding chair at the corner of his driveway to watch the neighborhood some nights. The man, who declined to be named, said he’s seen the blue SUV parked up the driveway since at least Sunday night and assumed someone had moved in.
Neighbors milled around the crime scene tape that blocked off a chunk of road outside the homes and took photos and videos while children sat on stoops. A neighbor who said she has lived at the mobile home park for almost two years said she's never seen anyone inside unit 50.
Jackson cautioned reporters that all of the information is preliminary and subject to change. He said police have to be careful to not reveal too many details too quickly, especially because authorities were just called to the scene two hours ago.
“That's shocking information: two dead women in a vehicle,” Jackson said.
Further details, including the causes of death, weren't immediately known.
Read Tuesday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
