BOY, 3, SHOT DEAD IN ARKANSAS ROAD-RAGE HORROR.

• A three-year-old boy being taken on a shopping trip by his grandmother was killed in a road-rage shooting when a driver opened fire on the grandmother’s car because he thought she “wasn’t moving fast enough at a stop sign,” police said.

The shooting occurred just before 6:30 p.m. at the Shackleford Crossings shopping centre near the western edge of Little Rock. The collection of stores has a Walmart on one end and a J.C. Penney on the other. On the last weekend before Christmas, it was crammed with shoppers.

The grandmother and the little boy, whose identities have not been released, were in their car at a stop sign when the other driver, apparently angry about the delay, stepped out of his car and opened fire, police said. The boy was struck by gunfire at least once, they said.

The grandmother, who wasn’t struck, drove away and called police.

The toddler was taken to

a hospital, where he died shortly after, becoming the second young child to be shot dead in a road-rage incident in the city in the past few weeks.

Police Lt. Steve McClanahan said investigators believe the boy and his grandmother “were completely innocent” and have no relationship with Saturday’s shooter, who was being sought. He said the grandmother was simply “driving the car and was taking her grandson shopping when the incident occurred.”

Police said they were looking for an older black Chevrolet Impala. Police did not release a detailed description of the man who was driving it.

Two days before Thanksgiving, a two-year-old was fatally injured in the back seat of her mother’s car in a drive-by shooting four miles east of the scene of Saturday’s incident, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The shooter in that case hasn’t been captured.

“This is about as frustrated as you can be as a public safety official, or just a plain citizen who’s sitting and watching this tonight, to think that these kind of things are occurring in our city streets,” Police Chief Kenton Buckner told reporters at a Saturday night news conference.

“When it involves children, especially kids that are this age, they’re very innocent. They can do very little to protect themselves. You would hope that as a community ... that we’d do everything we can to protect them.”

THIS IS ABOUT AS FRUSTRATED AS YOU CAN BE AS A PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL.