Three people were killed and at least 11 others, including two police officers, were wounded in a mass shooting at a grocery store in Arkansas on Friday. The suspect, identified by the Ouachita County Sheriff’s Office as Travis Posey, 44, was shot by police and arrested.
Posey, a truck driver, was previously arrested in 2011 for carrying a handgun at the entrance of a New York military base near the Canadian border. Mike Hagar, the Secretary of the Arkansas Department of Public Safety and Director of the Arkansas State Police said at a press conference that 11 civilians were shot, three of them fatally, at the Mad Butcher in Fordyce.
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Hagar said that police received 911 calls reporting a shooting at around 11:38 a.m. Two law enforcement officers were also shot, but their injuries are not considered life-threatening.
Posey’s injuries are also not life-threatening. As of Friday afternoon, the motive …