A 3-year-old boy being taken on a shopping trip by his grandmother was killed in a road rage shooting when a driver opened fire on the grandmother’s car because he thought she “wasn’t moving fast enough at a stop sign,” police said.
The boy and his grandmother were at the stop sign in southwest Little Rock on Saturday evening when a driver apparently angry about the delay stepped out of his car and opened fire, police said. The boy was struck by gunfire at least once, they said.
The grandmother, who wasn’t struck, drove away and called police from a shopping center.
Police arrived at the shopping center and found the boy in the car outside a JCPenney department store. The boy was taken to a hospital, where he died shortly after, becoming the second young child shot dead in a road rage incident in the city in the last few weeks.
Police Lt. Steve McClanahan said investigators believe the boy and his grandmother “were completely innocent” and have no relationship with Saturday’s shooter, who was being sought. He said the grandmother simply was “driving the car and was taking her grandson shopping when the incident occurred.”
Police said they were looking for an older black Chevrolet Impala. Police did not release a detailed description of the man who was driving it.
Last month, a 2-year-old girl was killed when a car drove by and someone fired into her vehicle; the shooter in that case hasn’t been captured.
Police Chief Kenton Buckner said the road rage killings were frustrating for the police department and the community, especially because the young victims were “very innocent” and “can do very little to protect themselves.”
“We cannot have a community to where the least protected among us, being infants, who are dying (in) these senseless crimes in our city,” Buckner said.
He said he didn’t know if the children’s shootings were related.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Some SOB animal -probably still angry that his queen Hillary lost.
So sad. RIP beautiful child
This crap has got to STOP!!!! Praying for that family … RIP sweet baby!!!!
Make the capital punishment more graphic, bring back public hangings for people who kill other people like this.
I volunteer to pull the rope and cheer!
RIP little Angels.. so sorry for your loss to both of your families..
When they do catch them, they need to put them in a prison with hardcore bikers and let the word out that they killed a child. The ACLU will not be able to save them.
what happens to the drugs and the large amounts of money that is confiscated in drug raids. It seems it could be used to pay on the debt, not just sit somewhere where is is easy pickings,
Catch them and put them in a cell where all day and all night all they hear is Hillary Clinton and her cavalcade of lies.
Enough is enough! Bring back the death penalty for all forms of homicide. Random murders have become too common, unlike in the 1950s-1960s when i was growing up.
Praying for the family! I can’t even begin to imagine the horror they are going through! :,(
I feel so sorry for the family and such an innocent child as well as how this will play on the mind of the grandmother. If this SOB is caught then his/her family should be made to flip the bill for the trial and then once convicted just taken straight to the gallows or chair or firing squad. No appeals no 2nd trial and have the SOB’s life taken just as quickly as they took the child’s life.
THE HELL WITH POLITICALLY CORRECT