KATV features the work of overburdened Little Rock homicide detectives attempting to solve the city’s rising number of homicides The report includes this five-year summary: 173 slayings in the last five years, with 42 still unsolved, or almost one in every four.
Fearful witnesses are one obstacle to arrests, detectives say.
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They report no leads at all on the city’s most recent gun death — the July 4 shooting of Marco Avila in Southwest Little Rock.