A gang-related shooting recently on Wright Avenue has sparked a news conference today by Arkansas Stop the Violence. The group will be joined by City Director Ken Richardson for a “Black Lives Matter” news conference at Wright Avenue and Battery Street  at 2 p.m. today.

The group wants the city to take steps to prevent a recurrence of the gang violence that gripped the city in the 1990s.

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