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Bullets hit 3 homes in LR; no one hurt

At least three Little Rock homes were hit by gunfire Wednesday, with one bullet entering a room where two toddlers and an infant slept, police reports show.

Officers responded to the 1000 block of West Charles Bussey Avenue about 11 p.m., according to one report.

A resident told authorities he heard multiple gunshots but didn't see a shooter. One bullet went through the wall of a room where the man's 62-year-old mother was sleeping, police said, and there were bullet holes observed in the outside of the man's residence and in his white 1991 Lincoln Town car.

In the same block, another resident told police a bullet went through the front door of the house and another went through the door of a bedroom where a 3-year-old, 2-year-old and an infant were sleeping.

A similar shooting was reported in February, when a bullet fired into a home on South Pierce Street landed in a 6-year-old girl's bed.

Also Wednesday, shots were fired at a house on Heatherbrae Court about 9 a.m., a police report shows, leaving a bullet lodged in the siding. A resident told police something similar had happened at a neighbor's home about three weeks before.

Burglar at church targets Iowa visitors

A downtown Little Rock church where a group of college students on a mission trip from Iowa were staying was burglarized Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

The thief went into First United Methodist Church, 723 Center St., between 3 and 5 p.m., a security employee told police.

About $3,400 worth of the students' belongings was taken, including a laptop, an insulin pump and a vial of the drug, a backpack, notebooks, schoolbooks, an umbrella, a wallet, a military ID, a water bottle and cash, the report states.

Security footage showed the burglar waiting outside until everyone inside one room in the church left, then entering and taking some of the property, according to the report. He did so three times over two hours.

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