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Teen’s Little Rock gunfire case going to adult court

Little Rock police confirmed Friday that a teenager arrested after shots were fired at several houses and a vehicle last month has been charged as an adult.

Justice Juan Moore, 17, was charged Thursday with criminal mischief and two counts of terroristic acts, both felonies.

He was initially arrested on Sept. 20 on multiple drug and firearm possession charges after he fled from officers responding to a call about multiple shots fired in the area of West Windsor Drive, according to a warrant for Moore’s arrest.

Officers reported finding seven bullet holes in a residence and one bullet strike in an unoccupied vehicle on West Windsor Drive, and multiple shell casings in the 6500 block of Brookview Drive, according to the warrant. Multiple witnesses told police that they saw a black car with a silver front end driving through the neighborhood and someone shooting from it, according to reports.

Officers later stopped Moore and a second man in a vehicle that fit that description, according to a warrant.

Moore was not listed on the Pulaski County jail roster Saturday evening.

NLR mom arrested in boy’s ’17 injuries

Officers arrested a North Little Rock woman Thursday after hospital officials determined last fall that the fractured skull, broken tibia and broken ribs of a 5-month-old were signs of “serious and recurrent child physical abuse,” according to court documents.

Quintina Morgan, 19, was in the Pulaski County jail Saturday facing charges of first-degree battery and endangering the welfare of a minor. Bail was set at $250,000, according to the jail’s roster.

On Nov. 22, North Little Rock police received a tip from a child-abuse hotline that Morgan’s infant son was being treated for multiple injuries that had a “high specificity for abuse,” according to a warrant for Morgan’s arrest.

Morgan told police in a Dec. 7 interview that she never physically abused the child, but she was his only caregiver, the warrant said.

A warrant for her arrest was issued Sept. 21. The arrest comes just months after Morgan was sentenced to five years of supervised probation and anger-management classes as part of a guilty plea in an aggravated-assault and domestic-battery case.

Gunshots hit house; NLR father is jailed

A North Little Rock man was arrested Thursday hours after multiple shots were fired into the West 15th Street house where his 2-year-old daughter was at the time, an arrest report said.

Officers arrested Xavier White, 22, after finding him in the driver’s seat of a vehicle that fit the description of one used in the drive-by shooting earlier Thursday, according to an arrest report.

Officers also reported finding a 9mm handgun on the pavement under the driver’s side of the vehicle.

The caliber and brand of the shells in the gun matched those found at the residence, according to the arrest report.

White told officers that he had had a fight with his daughter’s mother and grandmother, who were standing outside the home when he fired the weapon, and that he knew his daughter was inside when he shot, according to the arrest report.

White was in the Pulaski County jail facing charges of aggravated assault, aggravated assault of a family or household member, and terroristic act as of Saturday evening. White is being held in lieu of a $1 million bond.

Suspect in threats surrenders in LR

A Little Rock man surrendered to police Saturday after accusations that he threatened a clerk at an E-Z Mart, according to an arrest report.

Derrick Morgan, 3 8 , walked into the 12th Street Station on Saturday to surrender, the report said. The clerk told officers that Morgan said, “I’m gonna kill you and rob you,” according to the report.

Morgan faces a charge of felony terroristic threatening and was in the Pulaski County jail as of Saturday evening with no bail set.

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