El Dorado police are investigating an incident in which a car and two houses were struck by bullets after several shots were fired Wednesday night on Marrable Hill Road.
Three people, including an infant, were inside the car when the shooting occurred. No injuries were reported.
Officers were called to the scene around 10:30 p.m., five hours after they responded to another incident when a man was found with a gunshot wound to the lower chest and was later transferred from Medical Center of South Arkansas to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock for further treatment. The incident is also under investigation.
The complainant in the Marrable Hill shooting told officers that two men he knew pulled behind him while he was at Rapid Stop/Goodcents, 1800 Lorene, noting that the men were in separate vehicles. He said his 6-month-old daughter and a woman were inside the vehicle with him at the time.
The man said he left the business and drove to a friend’s house in the 300 block of Marrable Hill, and shortly after he parked, the suspects leaned out the windows of their vehicles and fired several shots at his vehicle before driving away.
He said he then drove to his residence in the 1100 block of Marrable Hill.
Police said the complainant’s car was struck by several bullets, and a bullet was recovered from the rear passenger’s floorboard.
The victim said the woman was sitting in the front passenger’s seat and his daughter was in a vehicle safety seat in the rear passenger’s seat.
Officers said bullet holes in the vehicle indicated that a bullet traveled through the rear passenger’s door to the rear door on the driver’s side, and another bullet traveled through the rear quarter panel on the passenger’s side of the vehicle and exited through the rear passenger’s seat.
The rear and front passenger’s side bumpers also appeared to have been grazed by bullets, police said.
While surveying damage at the residence in the 300 block of Marrable Hill, police said they spotted a bullet hole just below a window. They also said a bullet damaged a water drainpipe on the east side of the house.
Police spoke with a resident who said she was home at the time of the shooting and that no bullets entered the house.
Five spent shell casings were recovered from the scene. Police said the casings came from two different handguns, noting four were fired from the same handgun.
At approximately 7:43 a.m. Thursday, police were called to the 200 block of Marrable Hill after a man reportedly found a bullet hole in his house.
The man told officers that he was inside his residence at approximately 10 p.m. the previous night when he heard people arguing and several rounds of gunfire erupt in the driveway of the residence in the 300 block of Marrable Hill.
He said a bullet traveled through the east living room wall of his residence, ricocheted off an interior wall and landed near the couch.
Police received information about potential suspects. No arrests have been made.
The suspects could face felony charges of aggravated assault, terroristic act and endangering the welfare of a minor, first-degree, according to a police report.