Police investigating after body found in residential area of west Little Rock

Police tape marks off the area where a body was found off Rahling Road in west Little Rock on Tuesday, June 5, 2018.
Police tape marks off the area where a body was found off Rahling Road in west Little Rock on Tuesday, June 5, 2018.

Police say a body of a man was found in a residential area of west Little Rock on Tuesday afternoon.

According to the Police Department's dispatch log, officers responded to a "subject down" in the area near the intersection of Rahling Road and Charleston Lane about 3:30 p.m.

A black motorcycle was later towed from the scene.

Shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday, police spokesman Lt. Michael Ford identified the man as 40-year-old Daniel Simmons.

His cause of death was not released, and Ford said the case is not being investigated as a homicide. The body has been sent to the state Crime Lab for analysis, the spokesman added.

No further information was released Tuesday night.

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

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