3 people are dead following an active shooter incident at Mad Butcher Grocery in Fordyce, Arkansas, USA on Friday, June 21.
DETAILS OF WHAT HAPPENED
Arkansas State Police responded to the Mad Butcher grocery store at 11:38 a.m. local time on Friday. Upon arrival, officers engaged in a shooting with the lone suspect, authorities said.
One police officer was among those shot but has non-life-threatening injuries.
The gunman was also shot and critically wounded by responding officers … he is now in police custody on three counts of capital murder.
The shooter is identified by police as 44-year-old Travis Eugene Posey of New Edinburg, Arkansas.
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WITNESSES RECOUNT THE INCIDENT
One witness, David Rodriguez, said he was pulling into a gas station when he heard ‘pops,” which he thought were fireworks.
Shortly after the suspect began firing bullets more rapidly, Rodriguez saw people running from the scene. He then heard sirens and saw ambulances and police arrive at the scene.
Rodriguez told CNN the Mad Butcher grocery store’s front windows were broken as if they had been ‘shot open’ by gunfire.
Matthew Gill, the meat manager at the Mad Butcher, said a man came into the store with a shotgun and ended up in a shootout with police.
As the shooting evolved, some people hid in a cooler in the grocery store, Fordyce City Council Member Roderick Rogers told KATV.
