A shooter who opened fire at a grocery store in Arkansas left the store and parked cars riddled with bullet holes as bystanders ducked for cover, killing 4 people and wounding 10 others. The wounded included two law enforcement officers who shot the suspect. The shooting occurred about 11:30 a.m. Friday at the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce, a city of 3,200 people 65 miles south of Little Rock, the Associated Press reports. Police identified the suspect as Travis Eugene Posey, 44, of New Edinburg. jailed and charged with three counts of capital murder.
It was the latest mass shooting at a grocery store. A white supremacist in 2022 killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket. That shooting came a little more than a year after one at a Boulder, Col., grocery where10 people were killed. In the Arkansas episode, police did not immediately offer a motive for the shooting. Roderick Rogers, a member of the city council, called the county sheriff when employees at his restaurant nearby notified him of the shooting. Rogers saw people running for cover in every direction. “People were just jumping into cars to get to safety,” Rogers said. Video posted on social media showed at least one person lying in the parking lot, while another captured multiple gunshots ringing out.