A manhunt operation is underway for the suspect who shot at a vehicle during a road rage incident. The incident is said to be due to the fact that a grandmother was not moving fast enough but the suspect missed her when he fired so the bullet struck a three-year-old boy and caused his death.
Little Rock police officials in Arkansas offered a $20,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of the man who shot the car and killed the boy, ABC News reported. The grandmother was reportedly taking the boy and his sibling, an infant, to a shopping trip when the incident took place on Saturday evening.
Lt. Steven McClanahan noted that the grandmother stopped at an intersection and the suspect, who is said to be a black man, pulled up behind the car of the grandmother and honked his horn, News.com.au reported. The grandmother then honked back and that was when the man stepped out of his vehicle and fired his gun.
The boy was believed to have been struck at least once. The infant and the grandmother were not injured in the incident.
The boy was taken to Arkansas Children's Hospital but he later died there. Police officials said via a tweet that the homicide was a road rage incident and the grandmother and her grandchildren were all innocent. The three had no relationship with the suspect.
Meanwhile, the incident came weeks after a two-year-old girl was shot dead when a car drove past and someone fired a shot towards the vehicle where she was in. The incident was on Nov. 22 and the attacker or attackers have not been caught yet.
The death of the three-year-old boy marks the 40th murder in Little Rock, Arkansas this year. It is not being considered that the shooting of the two-year-old girl and the three-year-old boy are related.
