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PINE BLUFF, Ark. – Police say one teen is dead, another shot and a third injured by a vehicle after a shooting in the early hours of Saturday morning.
According to the Pine Bluff Police Department, officers saw a gray van run a red light at a high rate of speed at 1:33 a.m. Officers stopped the van and several men got out to tell officers their friend had been shot at a West 5th Street bar and grill.
The officers followed the van to the hospital while other officers went to the nightspot where they determined two 17-year-olds had been shot and one 18-year-old had been struck by a vehicle.
Police report one of the 17-year-olds sustained a severe gunshot wound and the teen was later pronounced dead at Arkansas Children's Hospital.
The body will be sent to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for autopsy. According to the PBPD, this is the 10th homicide in Pine Bluff in 2023.