December 23, 2024
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Special Agents with the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division (CID) have arrested two men involved in a shooting incident that occurred around 3:30 p.m. on November 29, 2024, on Interstate 40 near the 154-mile marker.
The incident, which occurred on Black Friday, began as a verbal altercation at a North Little Rock sporting goods store and escalated when the suspects followed the victims onto I-40. The suspects fired multiple times into the victims’ vehicle, striking the driver in the leg. The injured victim was transported to UAMS with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, while a passenger in the victim’s vehicle was unharmed.
Valtorean Batemen, 19, of Sherwood, turned himself in to the Pulaski County District Court on December 11, 2024. On Thursday, December 19, 2024, Treon Bone, 20, of Sherwood, turned himself in to the Pulaski County District Court.
Both Batemen and Bone are charged with Committing a Terrorist Act, Unlawful Discharge of a Weapon, and Attempted Capital Murder.