A man opened fire at the Mad Butcher grocery store in Arkansas’ Fordyce on Friday, killing at least 3 person and injuring 10 others, authorities said.
State police said that the injured persons also include two law enforcement officers who exchanged fire with the shooter. The incident reportedly took place at around 11:30 am at the grocery store.
The Arkansas State Police named the suspected shooter as one 44-year-old Travis Eugene Posey of New Edinburg. They said that Posey will be charged with three counts of Capital Murder, with additional charges pending.
Following the shooting, Col Mike Hagar — director of state police and public safety secretary — said, “It’s tragic, our hearts are broken.”
Hagar said that neither the officers’ nor the suspected shooter’s injuries were fatal, adding that the civilians’ wounds ranged from “non-life threatening to extremely critical”.
As per the state police, Posey was treated for non-life threatening injuries after exchanging gunfire with law enforcement, released to Arkansas State police’s custody and then moved to the Ouachita County Detention Center.
With supermarket attacks, previously a white supremacist killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in 2022. A not over a year later one at a Boulder, Colorado supermarket, where 10 persons were killed.
A member of city council, Roderick Rogers, reportedly called the county sheriff when the employees at his restaurant nearby alerted him about the shooting. When he got there, he said, people were running in chaos in every direction, with one even running to the nearby hospital.