NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark.– For skate boarders like Jeremy Mikell, Riverview Park in North Little Rock is place to find peace, or in the case of a murder suspect, clear their conscience.
“Most people come out here just to clear their mind because they’re skateboarding usually,” Mikell said.
“That’s crazy it was this close around here,” Mikell said.
North Little Rock Police say a patrol officer spotted the car belonging to Israel Choxon in the park’s parking lot Wednesday afternoon.
Choxon was shot, killed and robbed of his Nissan Maxima Monday night in a Little Rock driveway.
“Sometimes they take them out and try to dispose of them whether its by fire or put it in water, I’ve seen it all,” Officer Steve Moore said.
Moore says LRPD has seen more suspects take off in victim’s vehicles, where they drop them depends on the criminal.
“We have seen them dropped off in Pine Bluff, North Little Rock, Jacksonville but a lot of times its Pulaski County.” Moore said.
Moore says the suspect in a woman’s brutal stabbing death last May took off with her car later found with people who knew nothing about the owner.
“Sometimes they stay in the city if somebody steals them and sells it or trades it and doesn’t tell you how they got it,” Moore said.
Moore says investigators will now look for physical evidence including DNA or a weapon in Choxon’s car, in hopes the supsect didn’t cover his tracks.
“You just don’t realize what you leave behind everywhere you go,” Moore said.
