
State police in Arkansas reported that a fourth person was killed in a shooting at a grocery store on Saturday night.
Ellen Shrum, 81, was named as the dead by the police.
The shooting that took place inside and outside the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce, a town approximately 70 miles south of Little Rock, soon after 11:30 a.m. on Friday left several others injured.
According to the Arkansas State Police, the shooting spree injured thirteen persons, including two law enforcement personnel. Officers make up none of the four victims who have died.
Police and family members have previously identified the three other deceased as Callie Weems, 23, Roy Sturgis, 50, and Shirley Taylor, 62.
Police announced on Saturday night that seven additional individuals, two men and five women, ages 20 to 65, had survived their injuries. Out of the seven, four are still in the hospital, one of whom is a very ill woman.
James Johnson, a 31-year-old Fordyce police officer, was discharged from a Little Rock hospital early on Saturday morning, according to the police. His gunshot wound was treated.
According to officials, the other wounded officer, Stuttgart officials Department officer John Hudson, 24, only had minor wounds.
In the course of a gunfight with law enforcement, the suspect, 44-year-old Travis Eugene Posey, who authorities say will face four counts of capital murder, was also hurt. There are still outstanding charges.
The defendant was brought into custody by the Arkansas State authorities and placed into the Ouachita County Detention Center after obtaining treatment for his wounds, which the authorities stated were not life-threatening.
Posey may not have a counsel, and a request for comment submitted on Friday was not immediately answered by the Dallas County, Arkansas, public defender’s office. There was no success in making phone calls to potential relatives.
Police are still investigating the motive. After being informed of the shooting, law enforcement authorities told NBC News on Saturday that there are no signs pointing to extremism as a potential motive.
Witnesses described the horror, with some claiming that the parking area of the grocery store was where the firing started. An employee at Mad Butcher, a meat cutter, reported hearing gunshots and glass breaking from the rear of the establishment. He managed to escape out the back door.
The shooting is under investigation by Arkansas State Police.