North Little Rock, Arkansas – A Sunday morning shooting on Farmstead Road has become a homicide investigation after a man found wounded at the scene later died at a hospital, according to the North Little Rock Police Department.
Officers were dispatched to the 6500 block of Farmstead Road after receiving reports that someone had been shot. When they arrived, they found a man lying on the ground with a gunshot wound.
The man was taken to an area hospital for treatment. Police said he subsequently died, prompting an investigation into his death. The department has not released his name because his next of kin must first be notified.
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The police account establishes the sequence from the initial report of a shooting to the discovery of the wounded man and his transfer to a hospital. However, the information provided does not explain what happened before officers were called or what led to the gunfire.
The location was identified by its block number on Farmstead Road. The report did not specify a particular property or say whether the shooting occurred inside a building or outdoors. Although officers found the man on the ground, that detail alone does not establish where he was when he was shot.
An exact time for the shooting or the officers’ arrival was not included in the account. The hospital where the man received treatment also was not named, and the report did not indicate how much time passed between his arrival there and his death.
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The information provided contains no details about a suspect, an arrest or a possible motive. It also does not describe any relationship between the victim and whoever fired the shot. Those circumstances remain unaddressed in the initial account.
North Little Rock police identified the case as a homicide investigation. For now, the department’s publicly described findings center on the wounded man discovered on Farmstead Road, his subsequent death at a hospital and the decision to withhold his identity until family notification is complete.
