1 dead, 2 injured in pair of Little Rock shootings

Police investigate a shooting at West 13th and Rice streets in Little Rock Friday night.
Police investigate a shooting at West 13th and Rice streets in Little Rock Friday night.

Editor's note: Police initially reported to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that one person had died in the shooting at 13th and Rice streets. On Saturday, a police spokesman said the three victims in the shooting are alive. Read the updated story here.

One person died and three others were injured in a pair of shootings Friday night in Little Rock, police said.

One person was found shot to death at 2201 South Oak St, said Little Rock police spokesman Lt. Steve McClanahan. He added that three people had been shot at West 13th and Rice streets, about a block north of Little Rock Central High School.

It wasn't immediately known if the two shootings, which were separated by less than two miles, were related.

Police received a call shortly after 9:30 p.m., reporting shots fired on Valentine Street, McClanahan said. A man had been shot in his car, McClanahan said, and then pushed down on the accelerator, driving west on 22nd Street. He then crashed through a backyard fence and hit the house at 2201 South Oak Street.

McClanahan said the unnamed victim appeared to have been shot in the upper body.

Dispatch records show the shooting at 13th and Rice was reported at 9:47 p.m.

The deaths are the city’s 28th and 29th homicides of 2016.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Ryan Tarinelli contributed information to this report.

Read Saturday's Democrat-Gazette for full details.


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