Suspect arrested after 3-year-old boy shot dead in car
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3-year-old Acen King
Police
say they've captured the man accused of shooting and killing a
3-year-old boy during an apparent road rage case in Little Rock,
Arkansas.
Gary Holmes, 33,
faces capital murder and terroristic act charges in connection with the
shooting, Pulaski County Sheriff's Office spokesman Lt. Cody Burk said.
The arrest came almost a week after Acen King was shot dead in the back seat of his grandmother's car.
Holmes
turned himself in Thursday night, police said. He was arraigned Friday
morning in Little Rock District Court and pleaded not guilty. He was
ordered held without bond.
The shooting sparked a community outcry, and police had offered a $40,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.
Police
said Friday they received a tip that Holmes had been in his
girlfriend's black Impala. She told police he was driving the car
Saturday and had a semi-automatic pistol in his lap. He became angry
because he thought a car behind him was following too closely, and he
pulled over to let the car pass.
The
car then stopped at a stop sign for a "few minutes," the woman
reportedly told police. Holmes honked, got out of the car and fired a
single shot into the other car.
Acen
was in the back seat with his 1-year-old brother. Their grandmother
said she was unaware the car was hit and she drove on to a J.C. Penney
about nine miles away. There she noticed Acen was hurt and called 911.
The
grandmother told police the incident began when a man in a car behind
her at a stop sign started honking his horn, apparently upset she wasn't
moving quickly enough. The grandmother honked her horn, too.
"One
shot was fired, and it went through the vehicle and hit the child,"
said Lt. Steven McClanahan, Little Rock police spokesman.
"She
didn't know he was shot," a bystander told the 911 operator after
speaking with the grandmother. One of the callers, describing to the 911
operator what happened, said the grandmother feverishly performed CPR
after the child sustained a neck wound.
The
boy was transferred to Arkansas Children's Hospital, where he was
pronounced dead. The other child was not wounded, according to the
police report.
Police said they believe the grandmother and the slain boy had no relationship with the gunman.
Source:CNN