The Jacksonville Police Department is now investigating after a 6-year-old boy was fatally shot on Sunday.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Ark. \u2014 The Jacksonville Police Department is now investigating after a young boy was shot and killed on Sunday.<\/p>\n
According to reports, on May 17, 2026, at about 7:30 p.m., officers were called with reports of shots that had been fired in the 4000 block of South Highway 161.<\/p>\n
While they were on the way, officers got word that one person had been shot in connection to the incident.<\/p>\n
Once they arrived, they found a 6-year-old boy in a vehicle who had reportedly been shot multiple times. Police say that two adults were also in the vehicle with the boy, but they were not injured.<\/p>\n
Officers immediately began to help the boy, and he was quickly taken to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
No information has been released regarding any possible suspects wanted in connection to this incident.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Jacksonville Police Department Criminal Investigation Division at (501 )982-3191.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Police Department is now investigating after a 6-year-old boy was fatally shot on Sunday. JACKSONVILLE, Ark.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-275373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}