Young mother, family matriarch and doting father ID’s as victims killed in Arkansas grocery store shooting
A 23-year-old nurse, mother to a 10-month-old girl, is among the four people killed in Friday's mass shooting at an Arkansas grocery store.
A 23-year-old nurse, mother to a 10-month-old girl, is among the four people killed in Friday's mass shooting at an Arkansas grocery store.
Callie Weems died when rounds and fragments from a suspect’s long gun struck 13, including two officers who had non-life-threatening injuries, at a Mad Butcher grocery store Friday morning in Fordyce, a small town about 70 miles south of Little Rock.
Family members confirmed that the two others killed in the mass shooting are Shirley Taylor, 63, and Roy Burton Sturgis, 50. Interviews and at an obituary helped shed some light on the lives they lived.
On Saturday night, Arkansas State Police said a fourth victim, Ellen Shrum, 81, has died. Her background wasn't immediately apparent.
One of four survivors of the attack who remained hospitalized Saturday evening was said to be in critical condition, police said. That patient, described as a woman, was not identified.
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