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By Canadian Press

Driver pleads guilty in fatal shooting of Little Rock girl

Sep 27, 2018 | 10:15 AM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An 18-year-old Little Rock teen has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the fatal shooting of a 2-year-old girl in 2016.

Court records first reported by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette show Larry James Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday to unlawful discharge of a firearm from a vehicle.

In exchange for the plea, prosecutors dismissed a capital murder charge and five weapons charges.

Prosecutors say Jackson was the driver in the November 2016 drive-by shooting that killed 2-year-old Ramiya Reed as she sat in her mother’s lap in another car.

Jackson was 16 at the time, but was charged and convicted as an adult.

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The suspected shooter, 23-year-old Deshaun Malik Rushing, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder earlier this year and was sentenced to 30-years in prison.

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