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Police say woman hurt by LR gunfire

A shooting at a Little Rock apartment complex Monday left one person injured, according to a police spokesman.

The shooting occurred at the apartment complex at 7575 Cantrell Road north of Ohio Street, said Lt. Michael Ford, a spokesman for the Little Rock Police Department.

Ford said a woman was shot in the thigh.

He reported a suspect was in police custody but has not been charged.

Crime scene tape blocked off some of the parking lot at the apartment complex Monday evening. A woman at the scene identified herself as the suspect's mother and waited outside the crime scene.

Man is shot in leg in NLR, police say

North Little Rock police say they are investigating after a man was shot in the leg Monday.

Sgt. Amy Cooper, a department spokesman, said officers were called to a residence in the area of West 18th and Augusta streets about 5:45 p.m. Monday.

The victim was taken by ambulance to a hospital, she said.

Cooper said the investigation is ongoing. No further information was available Monday evening.

Police say details of drive-by conflict

An 18-year-old Little Rock man hurt in a reported drive-by shooting Sunday night and his friend gave conflicting information about what happened, police said.

Officers responded shortly before 9 p.m. to UAMS Medical Center in reference to a shooting report.

There, Matya Sisa said that he and some friends were preparing to go paint-balling when a white vehicle pulled up next to theirs on College Street and started shooting.

A 20-year-old Little Rock man described as Sisa's friend, meanwhile, said that he and Sisa had been picked up by some of his other friends and taken to a Kum and Go near the intersection of Chicot and Baseline roads.

As they started to leave and made a right turn out of the gas station, a maroon truck pulled in front of them and stopped, the friend told authorities.

A passenger in the vehicle's back seat then began shooting, the report states. About a dozen shots were fired, and Sisa fell out of the vehicle, the 20-year-old said.

The driver of a white pickup stopped and took Sisa and the friend to the hospital, police said. The teen, who was struck in his left thigh, had injuries that were described as not life-threatening.

No suspects were named, and no arrests had been made at the time of the report.

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