100 years ago
Sept. 4, 1917
TEXARKANA -- Bryan Shepp, 22 years old, son of well-to-do farmers of the Nash community, five miles west of here, was shot twice through the body yesterday afternoon at the Nash depot. He died three hours later. Wiley Malone, a neighbor, surrendered to the sheriff, and is held pending a hearing, which is set for Wednesday. About 50 people were at the station when the shooting took place, but none saw the shots fired as Shepp and Malone were standing a few yards away and a train was pulling in.
50 years ago
Sept. 4, 1967
• Booker T. McDonald, a Negro, of 523 East Eighteenth Street, is being sought by police in connection with the slaying Saturday of Little Rock policeman Lloyd Wilburn Worthy. Police Chief R. E. Brains said a warrant for McDonald's arrest on a charge of first-degree murder was issued about 10:30 a.m. Sunday by Prosecuting Attorney Richard B. Adkisson. A statewide alert for McDonald was broadcast on police radio late Saturday. Worthy, 27, was shot to death about 7:10 p.m. Saturday after he had stopped a man for questioning near the Ark-Rok Asphalt Roofing Corporation Plant at 2500 East Roosevelt Road.
25 years ago
Sept. 4, 1992
• Occasionally, a persistent rumor -- what some folklorists might call an "urban legend" -- gets started. Then it's told repeatedly with just enough specific detail to start a small furor. Such phenomenon has happened this year. For months, an unsubstantiated report has been circulating around Central Arkansas that a young boy was assaulted and mutilated while he used a restroom at a local mall. In most accounts, the act is said to have been committed by gang members performing an initiation requirement.
10 years ago
Sept. 4, 2007
• Derek Allmon, the kingpin of a drug-trafficking ring that moved 330 kilograms -- or 726 pounds -- of cocaine through Arkansas from 2001-04, saw his drug and attempted murder convictions upheld last week by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On April 4, 2006, the Dallas man was convicted by a federal jury in Little Rock of all 12 charges he faced. They included conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana, conspiracy to kill a witness and attempting to kill a witness. The latter charges concerned the April 7, 2005, shooting of Turna Grigsby, and the April 29, 2003, shots fired at Mark Williams, another Little Rock man whom Allmon suspected of causing him to be arrested on drug charges.
Metro on 09/04/2017