A Pulaski County coroner said Wise was pronounced dead at the scene.
Maj. Cindy Wise, the man’s wife who also is a Salvation Army officer, was in the center and witnessed the shooting and called 911, telling police her husband had just dropped off bell-ringers from collecting money for the needy. She said her family was walking into the center at 18th and Main from a van used to pick up the bell-ringers from locations around the city.
Police said one of the two men, both of whom reportedly appeared to be in their teens or early 20s, pulled a gun, demanded money and then shot Wise
Wise, a native of Maryland, attended Salvation Army training from 1992 to 1994 in Atlanta. The Web site documenting his attendance quotes Ephesians 6:12: “We doth not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
Just last week, a Salvation Army kettle was stolen in a robbery at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Sherwood, just a few miles north of where the shooting occurred Thursday.
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