Huffington Post – by Nina Golgowski
A 3-year-old Arkansas boy is dead after a gunman fired at his grandmother’s car during a road-rage incident Saturday night, police said.
The toddler was sitting inside of his grandmother’s vehicle at a stoplight when she says a man pulled up behind them in a black Chevrolet Impala and honked his horn, according to a Little Rock police incident report obtained by Arkansas Online.
The grandmother told police she honked her horn back. The driver of the Impala allegedly then got out of his car, approached her vehicle, and fired one shot into her car as she drove off.
It wasn’t until after the grandmother pulled into a J.C. Penney department store’s parking lot, around 6:25 p.m., that she realized her grandson had been shot, Lt. Steven McClanahan told Reuters.
The child was pronounced dead shortly after, police said.
“The grandma and 3-year-old victim are innocent and have no relationship [with] the suspect,” the police department tweeted.
Tonight's homicide was a road rage incident, the grandma and 3 year old victim are innocent and have no relationship w/ the suspect.
— Little Rock Police (@LRpolice) December 18, 2016
A search remains underway for the gunman, who is described as a tall black male.
Saturday’s road-rage shooting is the second to claim a child’s life in the city in less than a month.
On Nov. 22, a 2-year-old girl was shot multiple times while sitting in the backseat of her aunt’s car, KTHV reported at the time.
“As you can probably understand, that is very, very frustrating to our police agency as it should be to our community,” the city’s police chief, Kenton Buckner, said at a press conference Saturday night. “That case is still open.”