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The woman was
taking the boy shopping in the southwest area of Little Rock on
Saturday evening when the suspect, apparently angry because the
grandmother paused too long at a stop sign, exited his vehicle
and opened fire, said Lieutenant Steven McClanahan of the Little
Rock Police Department.
The grandmother, who was driving away when the suspect began
shooting, was initially unaware that the boy had been shot,
McClanahan said. She drove several miles to a shopping center,
where she realized the boy was wounded and called for help, he
said.
The victim was pronounced dead at a local hospital. He and the
grandmother, who was not injured in the incident, did not know
the suspect and were innocent, police wrote in a Twitter
message.
Police said the suspect, a black male, fled in a Chevrolet
Impala.
Detectives have interviewed the grandmother and canvassed the
area of the shooting, but have no further clues about the
identity of the shooter, McClanahan said.
The attack marks the second time in less than a month a toddler
was killed in Little Rock in a road rage shooting, police said.
A two-year-old girl was killed by gunfire on Nov. 22 while
riding in the backseat of a car. No arrests have been made in
the case.
(Reporting by Laila Kearney; Editing by Alan Crosby)
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