North Little Rock police have opened a homicide investigation into the death of a man found lying in the street early Saturday morning, a police spokesman said.
North Little Rock police responded at 1:44 a.m. to a disturbance report in the 1500 block of East Broadway, but while patrolling the area, found a man lying in the road near 200 N. Clark St., department spokesman Sgt. Amy Cooper said.
The man was suffering from "obvious trauma" and medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene, Cooper said. The man's identity was not released, pending family notification.
No further details about the initial 911 call or the nature of the man's wounds were immediately available.The homicide is the eighth in North Little Rock in 2019.