Three people were killed and 11 others were injured in a shooting Friday morning at a Central Arkansas grocery store, police said.
A gunman opened fire at the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce Arkansas State Police said in a statement around 11:30 a.m.
Police said the gunman was shot and injured by police before being arrested.
Eleven people, including two law enforcement officers, were injured in the shooting. The officers’ injuries were not life-threatening. Mike Hagar, director of the Arkansas State Police, said in a news conference that the gunman’s injuries were not life-threatening.
The conditions of the others injured range from non-life-threatening to “extremely critical,” Hagar said.
The motive for the shooting is unclear.
On Friday night, police identified the shooting suspect as Travis Eugene Posey, 44, of New Edinburg, a community 10 miles southeast of Fordyce.
Posey will be charged with three counts of murder, police said, noting that additional charges are pending.
Videos and photos appeared on social media showing bullet holes in the store’s windows and someone holding what appeared to be a rifle firing from the parking lot.
David Rodriguez was getting gas at a nearby gas station when he heard several explosions that he thought were fireworks.
“Then suddenly there was mass gunfire between the police and whoever was out in the parking lot,” Mr. Rodriguez, 58, of Kingsland, Ark., said in an interview. He took out his phone and started recording the footage before realizing he had to flee.
Matt Gill was on the set of Mad Butcher, working a shift as a butcher when he heard a pop.
“Everyone asked, ‘What’s that noise?’” Mr. Gill, 38, said in an interview. “I said ‘Ma’am, that’s a handgun. We have to go.”
Mr. Gill said he led his co-workers to the back of the store but several store employees were separated as they ran away.
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said above social media that she had been updated on the shooting in Fordyce, a city of about 3,300 residents about 70 miles south of Little Rock, Ark.
“I am grateful to law enforcement and first responders for their quick and heroic actions to save lives,” she wrote.
