Overview
- Officials identified the victim as Michelle Butler, 36, a Rockefeller Early Childhood Center employee fatally shot near the campus parking lot just before 3 p.m. Wednesday.
- Police said Duane Nooner, 29, was arrested Wednesday evening, booked into the Pulaski County jail, and charged with capital murder, with a first court appearance expected Thursday by video.
- The Little Rock Police Department described the incident as stemming from a domestic dispute and said the school itself was not a target.
- The school went into lockdown as a precaution, later reopened, and no students were injured, according to district and police statements.
- Dispatch logs show 911 calls at 2:54–2:55 p.m. near 15th and Bragg streets, and Mayor Frank Scott Jr. condemned the killing as senseless and too close to children.