LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Police said a fourth victim died a day later from a gunman opened fire in an Arkansas grocery storeinjuring nine other people and riddling cars with bullet holes as panicked passersby sought shelter.
The person died Saturday night, Arkansas State Police said in a statement, listing a total of 14 people struck by gunfire: “11 civilians, two police officers and the suspect.”
The dead were identified as Shirley Taylor, 62, Callie Weems, 23, Roy Sturgis, 50, and Ellen Shrum, 81 – “all civilians,” according to the statement.
The injured ranged in age from 20 to 65, police said. Four were still hospitalized, including a woman who was in critical condition.
The injured officers were identified as Fordyce police officer James Johnson, 31, who was released from a hospital Saturday night, and Stuttgart police officer John Hudson, 24, whose injuries were considered minor.
Police said the suspect is Travis Eugene Posey, 44, of New Edinburg, and he will be charged with four counts of capital murder.
“He was treated for non-life-threatening injuries following an exchange of gunfire with authorities” and was then released from police custody and taken to the Ouachita County Detention Center, police said in the statement.
Police did not release a motive. A press conference to provide an update on the shooting has been announced for 2pm on Sunday.
The shooting occurred around 11:30 a.m. Friday at the Mad Butcher supermarket in Fordyce, a town of about 3,200 people located 64 miles (104 kilometers) south of Little Rock.
Roderick Rogers, a city council member, said he called the sheriff when employees at his nearby restaurant notified him of the shooting. When he got there, he saw people running for shelter in all directions, even one running to the nearby hospital.
“People were just getting in their cars to get to safety,” Rogers said Friday.
Video posted on social media showed at least one person lying in the parking lot, while another captured several gunshots ringing out.
Footage from reporters at the scene showed a series of bullet holes in the store’s window and shell casings scattered across the parking lot. In video footage, local and state agencies could be seen responding with at least one medical helicopter landing nearby.
It was the last mass shooting with a supermarket as a backdrop. In 2022, a white supremacist killed 10 black people at a Buffalo supermarket. This happened just over a year after 10 people were shot to death supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.
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