A three-year-old boy in Arkansas lost his life over a road rage incident in Little Rock.
It was because his grandma “wasn’t moving fast enough” at a stop sign. A man was frustrated with her slow driving, so he started the confrontation. He stepped out of his vehicle and fired shots into the grandmother’s car.
The police department said:
“Tonight’s homicide was a road rage incident, the grandma and 3-year-old victim are innocent and have no relationship w/ the suspect.”
Police Chief Kenton Buckner said:
“Because we have not had an opportunity to do a very thorough investigation…we don’t know as to when and where the individual operating the car was able to learn of when the child was shot.”
The grandma was taking the boy shopping. After the shot was fired, she drove to the J.C. Penney and called the police. The boy died in the hospital later that day.
Buckner said:
“That is very, very frustrating to our police agency as it should be to our community. We cannot have a community where the least protected among us, being infants, are dying (in) senseless crimes.”
Unfortunately, this is not the only case of road rage shooting in Arkansas. Last month, a two-year-old girl was shot while riding in a car. The child was in the car with her mother, cousin, and four other children. They were the unwitting victims of a drive-by shooting. The child died in the hospital later that evening.
The motive for this shooting is unknown. A couple weeks ago, someone made an anonymous donation of $10,000 to be used to help in the investigation. The police department is matching it.
This senseless violence needs to stop. Unfortunately, we may not make that much progress on gun control with a Republican administration coming in next year.
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