Prosecutors on Friday persuaded Pulaski County Circuit Judge Karen Whatley to seal the Little Rock Police Department s investigation into a shooting by one of its officers last month that left a teenager wounded in the head.
Johvoni McClendon, the now-fired Little Rock police officer arrested in the line-of-duty shooting of a teenager, made his first Pulaski County Circuit Court appearance on Thursday, with the presiding judge declining a request by prosecutors and defense attorneys to seal the investigative file.
Little Rock police have fired an officer who was charged with first-degree battery after he shot a man in the head Sept. 30 while attempting to arrest him, a police spokesman said Wednesday.