October 8, 2024
JACKSONVILLE, Ark.— On Monday, October 7, 2024, around 2:45 p.m., Arkansas State Police (ASP) responded to a shooting incident at the 156-mile marker on Interstate 40 westbound in North Little Rock near the Springhill exit. Troopers found the victim, a 50-year-old man from Arizona, with minor injuries and his tractor trailer with a shattered window. ASP Criminal Investigation Division (CID) special agents recovered a projectile lodged in a closet of the truck.
Investigators reviewed dash camera footage from the victim’s truck, which identified the suspect vehicle, a maroon 2017 KIA Forte. At approximately 5:25 p.m., Troopers located the suspect vehicle at a Jacksonville apartment complex. ASP Special Agents executed a search warrant at the apartment where the suspect, Al’Khaliq Rogers, 21, of Pulaski County, was located. Inside the apartment, investigators located three firearms, including one stolen out of Oklahoma, along with illegal marijuana, multiple drum magazines for a rifle and pistols, and a bulletproof vest.
ASP arrested Rogers and transported him to the Pulaski County Detention Center, where he is being held on felony charges of Committing a Terroristic Act, First Degree Battery, Unlawful Discharge of a Firearm, Simultaneous Possession of Firearms and Narcotics, Possession with Intent to Deliver, and Theft by Receiving.
