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PHOTOS: Downtown Little Rock Club Shooting

Arkansas Public Media | By Bobby Ampezzan
Published July 1, 2017 at 10:28 AM CDT

UPDATE: Police tweeting the number injured is 28 — 25 shot.

Shooting broke out at a late-night club in downtown Little Rock Saturday morning, injuring 28 (earlier, police had numbered the injured at 17).

Footage shot by a patron and uploaded to Facebook captures a spray of gunfire at about 2 a.m. At the end of the video patrons can be heard checking each other for bullet holes. The Little Rock police responded shortly after.

Power Ultra Lounge is a second story music venue and club at 220 W. 6th St. After the shots were fired, some patrons tried to flee the packed venue by breaking windows and leaping from the second story to the sidewalk below. One or more than one landed on an awning above a ground-floor shop, caving it in.

Police Chief Kenton Buckner has called a press conference for 3 p.m. today. Partner station KUAR-89.1 will be following the story throughout the day on air and at kuar.org.

According to other media reports, the shooting is the most recent in a week that saw more than a dozen drive-by shootings in Little Rock.

Little Rock police cordoned off most of a city block in the 200 block of W. 6th St.
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Little Rock police cordoned off most of a city block in the 200 block of W. 6th St.
Patrons reportedly broke windows and leaped from the second story of the club to the sidewalk below to flee the gunfire.
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Patrons reportedly broke windows and leaped from the second story of the club to the sidewalk below to flee the gunfire.
Patrons reportedly broke windows and leaped from the second story of the club to the sidewalk below to flee the gunfire.
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Patrons reportedly broke windows and leaped from the second story of the club to the sidewalk below to flee the gunfire.
A police crime scene vehicle is parked right outside Power Ultra Lounge.
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A police crime scene vehicle is parked right outside Power Ultra Lounge.
Concurrently, and unrelatedly, a service outside St. Andrews Cathedral for a dead tow truck driver brought about two dozen such trucks to the scene.
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Concurrently, and unrelatedly, a service outside St. Andrews Cathedral for a dead tow truck driver brought about two dozen such trucks to the scene.

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Bobby Ampezzan
Bobby Ampezzan is a native of Detroit who holds degrees from Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA) and the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville). He's written for The Guardian newspaper and Oxford American magazine and was a longtime staff writer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The best dimestore nugget he's lately discovered comes from James Altucher's Choose Yourself (actually, the Times' profile on Altucher, which quotes the book): "I lose at least 20 percent of my intelligence when I am resentful." Meanwhile, his faith in public radio and television stems from the unifying philosophy that not everything be serious, but curiosity should follow every thing, and that we be serious about curiosity.