CAMDEN — 7-year-old boy is hurt in L.R. drive-by shooting
LITTLE ROCK - A 7-year-old boy was wounded Tuesday afternoon in a drive-by shooting in Little Rock, according to a police spokesman.
Arkansas Online states that police were dispatched about 4 p.m. to 1123 Washington St. for a report of a shooting in progress, according to police spokesman Lt. Steve McClanahan.
Officers arrived and found a 7-year-old boy suffering from a gunshot wound in the arm, McClanahan said. The child did not have life-threatening injuries, he said, and was taken by ambulance to Arkansas Children's Hospital for treatment. Nobody else was reported wounded.
Investigators do not believe that the child, whom police did not identify, was targeted in the shooting, McClanahan said. Instead, the target was a group of people sitting on top of a small hill, near Washington Street, located between West 12th and West 11th streets, he said. McClanahan said a group of children was outside when the shots were fired.
Crime-scene tape ran along the home at 1123 Washington St. Bright yellow evidence markers lay in the grass near the home as cars in rush-hour commute rolled by the scene.
Police were looking for an SUV or a vehicle of similar type that was seen fleeing the crime scene, McClanahan said. He said the shooter was described as a black male who was hanging outside the vehicle firing shots.