Two people are dead and eight others including a cop are wounded after a shooting broke out at a grocery store in south Arkansas.
Gunfire erupted outside the Mad Butcher in Fordyce around noon on Friday, reported the Southeast Arkansas Times.
The suspect was shot by police and critically injured, said Arkansas State Police.
A law enforcement officer was among victims shot and did not have life-threatening injuries.
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she has been briefed on the mass shooting and in ‘constant contact’ with state police.
‘I am thankful to law enforcement and first responders for their quick and heroic action to save lives,’ she wrote on X (formerly Twitter). ‘My prayers are with the victims and all those impacted by this.’
Fordyce has a population of about 3,200 and is about 65 miles south of Little Rock.
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