Two Dead, Eight Wounded In Arkansas Mass Shooting

CBS News reports:

Two people were killed and eight wounded in a mass shooting Friday outside of a grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas, state police said. One law enforcement officer was among those wounded and has non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Arkansas State Police responded to the Mad Butcher grocery store at 11:30 a.m. local time on Friday. The shooter was critically injured and has been taken into custody, police said.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports:



Described as a “shootout,” the report said the incident involved two groups and “AR-15 style weapons” were used. In a video posted on Facebook at 11:59 a.m., 11 gunshots are heard. In the video, posted by Casey D. Rodriguez, the location is described as the Mad Butcher, a supermarket located at 920 West 4th Street. “There’s somebody lying in the parking lot, shot,” Rodriguez says in the video.