Boy killed in PB; youth, 14, arrested

A 12-year-old boy who was shot in Pine Bluff on Saturday died early Sunday, and a 14-year-old boy has been arrested in the shooting, police said Sunday.

Quinshun Parks, who was shot in the chest at about noon Saturday in the 2100 block of East Harding Avenue, died at a hospital about 4 a.m. Sunday, Pine Bluff police Lt. Robert Rawlinson said in a news release.

He said in the release Sunday afternoon that the 14-year-old, whom he did not name, had turned himself in to police.

The 14-year- old was charged with first-degree battery and being a juvenile in possession of a handgun, the release says.

“Due to Quinshun’s death a determination will be made by the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in filing the appropriate charges,” Rawlinson said in the release.

He said no weapon had been recovered. Rawlinson didn’t return a call seeking additional information Sunday. Saturday, Little Rock police spokesman Sgt. Cassandra Davis said.

At 7:57 p.m. Saturday, Jerene Herdon, 26, was driving north on Chicot Road when he hit a Little Rock Fire Department truck turning east into Fire Station 19, at 10621 Chicot Road.

Davis said Herdon, whose address was not available Sunday, was transported to an area hospital, but she did not know more details about his injuries.

Fire Department spokesman Capt. Edwin Woolf did not release information regarding the damage to the truck.