A Fourth Victim Has Died After a Shooting at

an Arkansas Grocery Store, Police Say

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Damage can be seen to a front window as law enforcement officers work the scene of a shooting
at the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas, on Friday, June 21, 2024. Colin
Murphey—AP
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
JUNE 23, 2024 8:05 AM EDT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Police said a fourth victim has died after a shooter opened fire at an
Arkansas grocery store, wounding nine others and riddling cars with bullet holes as
panicked bystanders scrambled for cover.
The person died Saturday evening, Arkansas state police said in a statement, listing a total
of 14 people as hit by gunfire: “11 civilians, two law enforcement officers and the suspect.”
The dead were identified as Shirley Taylor, 62, Callie Weems, 23, Roy Sturgis, 50, and Ellen
Shrum, 81 — “all civilians,” according to the statement.
The wounded range in age between 20 and 65, police said. Four were still hospitalized,
including a woman who was in critical condition.
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The wounded agents were identified as Fordyce Police Officer James Johnson, 31, who was
released from a hospital Saturday evening, and Stuttgart Police Officer John Hudson, 24,
whose injuries were said to be minor.
Police said the suspect is Travis Eugene Posey, 44, of New Edinburg, and he will be charged
with four counts of capital murder.
“He was treated for non-life-threatening injuries after exchanging gunfire with law
enforcement” and was then released to police custody and taken to the Ouachita County
Detention Center, police said in the statement.
Police have not released a motive. A media briefing to update about the shooting was
announced for 2 p.m. Sunday.
As of Friday, a state police spokesperson did not know if Posey had an attorney, and there
was no immediate response to a phone message left with the agency's public information
office Saturday night. The Ouachita County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Saturday that he was
being held at the detention center but had no information about a possible lawyer. No
inmate record was online for him yet.
The shooting took place around 11:30 a.m. Friday at the Mad Butcher grocery store in
Fordyce, a city of about 3,200 people located 65 miles (104 kilometers) south of Little Rock.
Roderick Rogers, a member of the city council, said he called the sheriff when employees at
his restaurant nearby notified him of the shooting. When he got there, he saw people
running for cover in every direction, even one running to the hospital nearby.
“People were just jumping into cars to get to safety,” Rogers said Friday.
Video posted on social media showed at least one person lying in the parking lot, while
another captured multiple gunshots ringing out.
Images from reporters on the scene showed a slew of bullet holes in the store’s window,
and spent shell casings strewn throughout the parking lot. In video images, local and state
agencies could be seen responding with at least one medical helicopter landing nearby.
It was the latest mass shooting with a grocery store as its backdrop. In 2022 a white
supremacist killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket. That came a little more than a
year after 10 people were fatally shot at supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.
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