NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — For the Benton Panthers, Friday’s game against North Little Rock was one they’d been looking forward to.

“All we were just thinking about is football, football, football,” Jimmy Morales, a junior right guard, said.

For Morales and the Panthers, the game couldn’t have started better.

Coming off a loss to Bryant, the team was up big at halftime- playing like they knew they could, according to senior wide receiver Will Carter.

“We had a good week leading up to it at practice,” Carter said, “And we just felt confident in each other.”

But at halftime, everything changed.

A shot was fired, striking the parent of a Benton band member sitting in the visitors’ bleachers.

The North Little Rock Police Department (NLRPD) is still investigating whether the shot origina

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