Little Rock police Saturday night were investigating a shooting that left a man dead in a vehicle on South Rodney Parham Road near Kanis Park, authorities said.
Officers responding to a report of a shooting just before 7:20 p.m. arrived in the area of 900 S. Rodney Parham Road, at the intersection with the Interstate 630 on-ramp, and found a man dead in the driver's seat of a Nissan sedan, police spokesman Sgt. Eric Barnes said.
A passenger in the vehicle was uninjured and gave a statement to detectives while police continued to work the scene, Barnes said.
No information was released about the victim, but Barnes said that family of the deceased had arrived at the scene about 8:45 p.m.
No information was available about the shooter or the shooter's vehicle, Barnes said, and he asked community members for tips that might lead to a break in the case.
Multiple shell casings were found in the road, Barnes said. Most were visible in the lane to the left of the Nissan, which was flanked by police vehicles with flashing lights.
It was too early in the investigation to say anything conclusive about the killing, Barnes said, but he acknowledged that the evidence visible on the scene might point to someone ambushing the victim at the intersection and then driving away, either farther down South Rodney Parham Road or onto the interstate.
The shooting was the city's 50th homicide this year, Barnes said.