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Little Rock gunfire leaves 2 men shot in feet

Two men were wounded Wednesday in a Little Rock shooting, police said.

Officer Steve Moore, a Little Rock police spokesman, said the two victims showed up at Arkansas Children’s Hospital around 7 p.m. Wednesday. Each man was shot in the foot and did not have life-threatening injuries, he said.

The wounded men reported that the shooting occurred in the area of West 33rd and South Chester streets, he said.

The men, according to Moore, declined to provide further information about the shooting, but told police they did not want to press charges.

Moore said police are investigating whether Wednesday’s double shooting is connected to a shooting Tuesday that injured a 17-year-old boy. He said the reported locations of the shootings are near each other.

In Tuesday’s shooting, officers were called to Arkansas Children’s Hospital about 9 p.m., where the teenager was being treated for a gunshot wound in his lower right calf, according to a police report. His injuries were described as nonlife-threatening.

The teen told authorities that he had been shot near 32nd and Izard streets while walking home from Crump Park. He said a vehicle made a U-turn in the street, and the driver began shooting.

Officers later established a crime scene in the 900 block of West 32nd Street, according to the report.

The boy’s mother told police the teen had left home around 5 p.m.

Authorities previously reported that the victim was 15.

Police had named no suspects or made any arrests in the case.

Groped, girl says; suspect arrested

A man was arrested Tuesday evening after a girl told police he had touched her inappropriately, according to a report.

Around 7 p.m., the Sherwood girl told officers Joshua Davy, 34, had touched her breasts and vagina in her home.

Davy told officers that he had touched the girl while “crying at the dinner table,” according to the arrest report. He later refused to give a statement.

He is charged with second-degree sexual assault and was being held at the Pulaski County jail, records show. No bail had been set.

He is to appear in court Feb.

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NLR man arrested after police chase

A 20-year-old man faces multiple felonies regarding a police chase in a stolen car on Monday, according to a police report.

Little Rock police say Nicholas Thomas of North Little Rock was driving a stolen 2014 Hyundai Elantra on Monday when he refused to stop for authorities. A pursuit began, and authorities said the vehicle chase ended in North Little Rock when Thomas stopped the car in the 700 block of Vine Street and fled on foot.

The report said police took Thomas into custody at 721 Walnut St. Police said the stolen vehicle reached speeds of around 80 mph during the pursuit.

According to the report, police found a firearm inside the Hyundai, but the weapon did not belong to the vehicle’s owner. The arrest report did not say where the vehicle pursuit began.

Thomas was charged with theft by receiving, possession of firearms by certain persons and fleeing, along with multiple misdemeanor charges.

He was listed on the Pulaski County jail’s inmate roster Tuesday night.

Museum break-in nets burglar $2

Police are investigating a Monday night break-in at a Little Rock museum in which a window was shattered and about $2 was taken, according to a report.

An employee told officers that about 9:15 p.m. the burglar alarm had gone off at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History at 503 E. Ninth St. The museum is on the grounds of MacArthur Park.

The employee said he arrived to find that the windowpane on the front door was broken. The door was locked, he told police, but there was damage to the donation box that sits about 10 feet away.

A brick was lying beside the box, and about $2 was reported missing.

The employee estimated the damage to the window and the box totaled about $500.

Police have named no suspects, and no arrests had been made.

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