Crash on U.S. 65 kills Leslie driver
A Leslie man was killed in a head-on crash on U.S.
65 in Clinton on Tuesday morning, according to a preliminary Arkansas State Police fatality report.
About 6:10 a.m., Randy Freeman, 23, was driving south on U.S. 65 north of Kip Lane in Clinton when his Jeep Wrangler crossed the centerline and struck a Ford F-250 traveling in the opposite direction.
Freeman was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Ford, David Winham, 33, of Searcy, was not injured.
- ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Man, 21, running across I-40 killed
A Marion man was killed when he was struck by two vehicles while running across Interstate 40 in West Memphis on Wednesday night, according to a preliminary Arkansas State Police fatality report.
About 11:24 p.m., Anthony Daniel, 21, was killed while attempting to run across the westbound lanes where he was struck by a Chevrolet Malibu. Daniel was then struck by a Volvo traveling in the same direction.
The driver of the Chevrolet, Salena Haynes, 27, of Forrest City, was taken to Crittenden Regional Hospital with unspecified injuries.
The report did not name the driver of the Volvo.
- ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Fault zone births
2 small temblors
Two small earthquakes that shook Lawrence County on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning occurred on a 600 millionyear-old fault system, scientists said.
The first quake happened at 3:38 p.m. Tuesday, about seven miles northeast of Black Rock on the northern edge of Lawrence County.
The fault was about 7.5 miles deep, said Scott Ausbrooks, geohazards supervisor for the Arkansas Geological Survey.
The second tremor, registering 1.6 in magnitude, struck at 1:17 a.m. Thursday and was centered four miles west of Ravenden in the northwestern corner of the county. The fault was about eight miles deep, Ausbrooks said.
No one reported feeling either quake, police said.
The quakes rumbled on a fault system called the Bolivar-Mansfield Fault Zone, which cuts through northcentral Arkansas.
Ausbrooks said the zone was created 600 million years ago, when the New Madrid Seismic Zone split a large series of faults that run from northeast Arkansas to southern Indiana. The Bolivar-Mansfield Fault Zone intersects the larger seismic zone, he said.
“It’s not as [active] as the New Madrid,” Ausbrooks said. “But it can get some stress accumulation that causes it to shift.”
In January 2009, three earthquakes rattled Lawrence County, including a 2.2-magnitude quake that shook houses near Walnut Ridge. Two quakes, registering 2.7 and 2.6 in magnitude, struck Hardy in August 2008.
Scientists have recorded earthquakes along the zone as far back as 1883, when a 4.2-magnitude temblor rumbled near Salem in Fulton County.
Three quakes ranging from 4.5-magnitude to 4.2-magnitude also struck near Hoxie and Walnut Ridge in 1981.
- ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
PB store clerk
slain in holdup
A Pine Bluff convenience store clerk was shot to death Tuesday night during what police believe was a robbery.
M.D. Islam, 26, of Pine Bluff was found about 8:45 p.m. inside the Big Red Food Mart at 2401 E. Sixth Ave., suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Pine Bluff Police Department.
No suspects had been arrested by Wednesday afternoon.
Capt. Greg Shapiro, a spokesman for the Pine Bluff Police Department, said the department is sharing details of the case with North Little Rock police to determine whether Islam’s death is connected to a Saturday night convenience store killing there.
“Anything is possible,” Shapiro said.
On Saturday night, three men attempted to rob an EZ Mart store in North Little Rock, then one returned to the store a short time later and shot and killed Akiya Egeston, 29, North Little Rock police have said.
In Jacksonville early Sunday, a masked man armed with a handgun robbed a Citgo gas station, Jacksonville police Capt. Kenny Boyd said. Detectives are investigating whether that robbery is related to the North Little Rock case.
Islam’s death marks the 14th homicide in Pine Bluff this year.
- ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE 1 dead, 1 injured in Tulsa shooting
Tulsa police said one man was killed and another injured in a latenight shooting at an apartment complex.
Police said the shooting happened early Thursday at the Fairmont Terrace Apartments. Tulsa television station KOTV reported that officers responded to the shooting call and found one man dead and a second man wounded inside a thirdfloor apartment.
Police said the injured man is expected to survive.
Capt. Travis Yates said police are looking for three people who reportedly forced their way into the apartment and opened fire.
No one has been arrested.
Tulsa police said the death is Tulsa’s 37th homicide of the year.
Northwest Arkansas, Pages 10 on 09/28/2012