67 wounded by Little Rock gunfire in 2017

On the heels of a weekend in which four people were shot and wounded in three separate incidents, Little Rock has had nearly twice as many victims injured in shootings this year than the same period last year.

As of Monday afternoon, 67 people have been hurt by gunfire in Little Rock so far this year, according to Police Department data. That is a 91 percent increase, compared with the 35 people who were shot and survived from Jan. 1 to April 17 of last year, data show.

In 2015, there were 47 people were wounded by gunshots in the first four months of the year, and in 2014, that figure was 25, according to department data.

“It is frustrating for us when a victim won’t cooperate or we don’t have a crime scene,” said police spokesman Lt. Steve McClanahan.

In one of the weekend shootings, the father of a 16-year-old shooting victim told police he did not want his daughter talking with officers, according to a police report.

Department data show there were 150 injured shooting victims last year, 118 in 2015 and 98 victims in 2014.

In the first of the three shootings, police were dispatched to the 3200 block of Baseline Road for a report of shots fired, according to a police report.

Officers went to the location but didn’t find a victim or any shell casings. About 12:42 a.m. Sunday, police were called to Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock for a shooting report, police said.

The 16-year-old girl had been shot in her right knee, the report said.

Authorities later found a crime scene in the parking lot of the Baseline Bilingual School, located at 3425 Baseline Road.

The second shooting of the weekend occurred at 1:51 a.m. Sunday when a 19-year-old man was hit in a drive-by shooting, according to a report.

Kaleb Patterson, 19, of Little Rock said he had been walking on West 32nd Street with his girlfriend when a dark-colored pickup stopped on the street, the report said.

Shots were fired from the truck, the report says.

The third shooting came Sunday evening near the intersection of West 28th and Madison streets.

Two men — Andre King, 26, and Tyler McBride, 21, both of Little Rock — were shot when someone in a white F-150 opened fire, the report said.