Little Rock homicides up, with questions but few answers

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(AP) – Community activists in Little Rock are urging
witnesses to step forward to help solve the latest killing in Arkansas’ capital
city, where the homicide rate is inching toward a level unseen in two decades.Fifty-year-old Daniel Dewayne Lewis died in a home-invasion robbery early
Sunday. Lewis often volunteered to help his neighbors and local school children.

It was the 39th homicide in Little Rock this year, pushing the city closer to
a mark not seen since its gang wars of the early 1990s.

City Director Ken Richardson said Tuesday that too many people accept a high
homicide rate as “normal activity” when it should be considered an aberration.

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