Two North Little Rock men explained at length to police Saturday why the SUV they were driving had multiple bullet holes and shattered windows, but, according to the police report, their stories did not match.
North Little Rock police officers attempted to pull over a speeding black SUV on Interstate 40 on Saturday, but instead of yielding to the officers, the driver reportedly turned on the vehicle's hazard lights and drove straight to the Baptist Springhill hospital emergency room.
When the car stopped in front of the entrance, a bleeding passenger, later identified as Quinton Freeman, got out and told officers he had been shot after being robbed at gunpoint in the drive-thru of the Taco Bell on Camp Robinson Road, according to a police report. One officer followed Freeman inside, and the second went to speak to the driver of the vehicle, which had multiple bullet holes and a broken rear windshield.
The driver, whose name was not provided, told the officer he was driving on Camp Robinson Road near the McDonald's restaurant when "all of a sudden people just started shooting." The driver said when he realized his cousin, Freeman, had been shot, he drove to the hospital, according to reports.
When the driver got out of the vehicle, officers reported that a shell casing fell out, though Freeman and the driver had insisted that they did not shoot back at the people who shot at them.
Just minutes after the officers noticed the speeding vehicle, multiple people called 911 to report shots being fired in the area of Camp Robinson Road.
