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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Court records filed connected Thursday supply further details successful the Wednesday decease of a Little Rock School District worker extracurricular the Rockefeller Early Childhood Center successful Little Rock.
Little Rock constabulary officials said connected Thursday that 36-year-old Michelle Butler of Little Rock “died from evident gunshot wounds” successful the incident. Records amusement that 29-year-old Duane Nooner told detectives helium ran implicit Butler with his car “several times” and past grabbed a pistol from wrong Butler’s adjacent car and changeable her “multiple times.”
Nooner was successful tribunal Thursday and entered a not blameworthy plea to a complaint of superior murder. Records amusement his adjacent tribunal quality is Oct. 20. He remains successful the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility without a enslaved being set.
He was taken into custody wrong 30 minutes of Butler’s death, according to tribunal records.
Records filed with the tribunal quality contiguous see the detective’s study connected Butler’s decease investigation.
The study shows that detectives recovered Nooner rapidly aft checking surveillance footage from the country soon aft being alerted to the shooting.
The footage shows a achromatic sedan with a spare tyre connected the near beforehand instrumentality “completely moving over” Butler aft striking her respective times, the detective’s study states. A antheral aboriginal identified arsenic Nooner is seen getting retired of the car and shooting Butler, according to the report.
The car’s licence sheet showed it to beryllium registered to Nooner and a 2nd man, according to the report.
After spotting it connected the video, detectives broadcast a statement of the conveyance to each officers, the study states.
Little Rock officers connected patrol spotted the sedan astatine a Little Rock state station. As officers moved toward the car, the study states, they saw Nooner leap retired of the car and effort to tally away.
Officers, per the report, ordered Nooner to get connected the ground, and helium did so. He was wearing the aforesaid apparel seen connected the surveillance video, detectives said successful the report.
The study concludes that Nooner waived his Miranda rights and confessed to detectives that helium ran implicit and changeable Butler. He threw the weapon distant arsenic helium fled the scene, helium told detectives.
