The residents of Little Rock, Arkansas are still coming to grips with the senseless murder of Acen King, 3, over the weekend. As reported previously, the boy was on a Christmas shopping trip with his grandmother Kim King-Macon when she pulled up to a stop sign. A driver behind her felt she was driving too slowly and fired multiple shots. King-Macon stated that at first she thought the driver fired a warning shot. It was not until she pulled into a shopping center that she realized her grandson had been struck by a bullet. On her agonizing 911 call, she is heard saying, “I was at the stop sign and the guy blew a horn at me and I blew back, and he shot, but I thought it was in the air. He shot at the car!”
The city of Little Rock and the FBI are each offering $20K rewards for information leading to the arrest of the attacker, who was still at large on Tuesday. Very little information is known about the shooter other than he was a tall, dark-skinned Black male driving a 2003 black Chevrolet Impala. The shooter and the victims have no relationship with one another. Sadly, this was the second shooting in less than a month of a child in a road rage incident. On Nov. 22, a 2-year-old girl, Ramiya Reed, was killed in a similar shooting as she sat in the backseat of her mother’s vehicle. That shooting is also unsolved at this time, and another $20K reward is being offered by the city of Little Rock in that case. Police have not announced if they are now looking for the same suspect in both cases. A GoFundMe account has been set up to cover funeral expenses for the family.
