Two people have been killed and six others injured, including a law enforcement officer, in a shooting at a grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas, police said.
The gunman was also critically injured after being shot by law enforcement and has been taken into custody, Arkansas State Police said.
The shooting at the Mad Butcher grocery store took place at around 11:30 a.m., local time, officials said. Fordyce is 70 miles south of Little Rock.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders posted on X that she had been briefed on the situation. “I am thankful to law enforcement and first responders for their quick and heroic action to save lives,” she wrote, calling the shooting a “horrific incident.”
The Mad Butcher shooting follows several other recent incidents of mass gun violence this week. On Wednesday, seven people were injured in a shooting in Philadelphia, and mass shootings broke out at Juneteenth celebrations in California and Texas.
Arkansas has the weakest gun laws of all 50 states and among the highest rates of gun violence in the country, according to Everytown Research & Policy, which studies gun violence in the U.S.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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