near Interstate 30 had been shot multiple times.A Little Rock police statement identifies the dead man as 28-year-old Antwon Bryant of Little Rock. An autopsy has been ordered on his body.
A passer-by reported finding the body in the grass along the highway frontage road about 9:30 a.m. Monday. It was the same area as where the sound of gunfire had been reported six hours previously.
Bryant is Little Rock’s 42nd homicide of the year, matching the number
reported for all of last year.
The death, plus two others since Saturday night, puts Little Rock on a pace to approach an annual total not seen since the city’s gang wars of the early 1990s.
Justice Department figures show 68 deaths in 1993 attributed to murder or
manslaughter. McClanahan said other killings, such as justifiable homicide, pushed the total to 78 that year.
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