A shooting outside a grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas, on Friday around 11:30 a.m., left three people dead and 10 others wounded, Arkansas State Police said.
Two law enforcement officers were among the wounded, but their wounds are non-life-threatening, Arkansas State Police Secretary of Public Safety and Director Mike Hagar said in a Friday afternoon press conference.
The shooter is in custody after exchanging gunfire with state police. Hager said the victims’ wounds range from non-life-threatening to critical.
“It’s tragic, our hearts are broken,” Hager told reporters. A witness, who works at Holt Builder’s Supply across the street from the shooting at the Mad Butcher grocery store, told Fox News Digital he heard “several rounds” and saw victims being medevaced from the scene.
The employee said, “multiple agencies were down here trying to figure out what was going on. We saw policemen running around the pharmacy, which is right next door to the Mad Butcher.”
He added, “It was pretty hectic around here between 11:30 and noon” and that he saw a medevac land at the local hospital’s helipad.
