Shooting is year's 27th LR homicide

Thursday, June 26, 2014

A man is dead and another is injured following an early morning shooting at a Little Rock apartment complex, police said.

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Officers took a shooting call at 8:47 a.m., and when the first officer arrived to the Beacon Hill apartments at 1801 Reservoir Road, she found one gunshot victim laying in the breezeway of a unit and another victim inside an apartment, according to police officials.

The victim inside Apartment 153, identified only as a 26-year-old man by officials, was taken to Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock, where he was pronounced dead at 9:41 a.m. from several gunshot wounds.

The unidentified man marks the 27th homicide in Little Rock this year.

The man found wounded in the breezeway was identified as Erin Daniels, a tenant of Apartment 153.

Daniels told officers he heard a knock on his door and when he opened it, there were three gunmen standing in wait, and all three opened fire. He was unable to give a description of his assailants other than that they were all black men.

Daniels, who police described as "seriously" injured, was taken to an area hospital, authorities said.

Little Rock Police Department spokesman Sgt. Cassandra Davis said Wednesday that investigators are trying to put together a description of the suspects with surveillance footage from the apartment complex.

Metro on 06/26/2014