Fox 16 reports on a fatal shooting in Southwest Little Rock Sunday night. It was, I believe, Little Rock’s seventh homicide of the year.

I’m just back from San Francisco (population 808,000 to Little Rock’s 183,000), where the newspaper brought a report of the city’s first homicide of the year.

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UPDATE: The victim has been identified as Garrick Smith, 19.

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