Posted on 06/15/2019 6:12:03 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Arkansas authorities have arrested a woman in connection with the murder of former state Sen. Linda Collins-Smith (R), State Police and Randolph County Sheriff's deputies announced Friday.
Special agents have taken Rebecca Lynn O’Donnell, 48, into custody and criminal charges against her are pending, police said in a statement.
Police said the investigation is currently at a “critical juncture,” and they are not releasing any further information to maintain the case's integrity.
Collins-Smith, 57, was reportedly found in her Pocahontas, Ark., home with a gunshot wound on June 4. It wasn’t clear how long she had been dead when her body was found, but she was said to be wrapped in some kind of blanket and her body had begun to decompose.
Collins-Smith served in the state House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013. When she was first elected, she identified as a Democrat but switched to the Republican Party during her first term.
After that, she represented District 19 in the Arkansas state Senate but lost her reelection bid in 2018.
The former Arkansas legislator was one of two state lawmakers two be found dead within a week. Police found Oklahoma state Sen. Jonathan Nichols (R) fatally shot after responding to reports of gunfire.
“she identified as a Democrat.............”
God I hate newspeak.
Strange.
They need to run that one through Google Translate again. I wonder in which language it was originally written. Obviously not English.
Reads like an English translation of a Russian translation of the English original.
What a bizarrely worded article.
What? You don’t speak “voice to text”?
It is curious. To me, “gunfire” means multiple shots. “A gunshot” is the phrase for a singular event. That being the case it would seem that “police responded to gunfire...discovered a suicide” seem to be unrelated events.
So that’s it! I never would have come around to that. Thanks.
PS: That speak-to-text feature is a real trouble maker for users. Haven’t dared use it for so long that I completely forgot about it.
I notice more because of a chronic “speech to text” disability. It’s called a West Texas drawl. (I wonder if I could get a handicapped sticker for my truck?)
Well, “Wow”. You just nailed why I can’t use that too-cute-by-half “voice” feature, either. Hat tip to your West Texas angle. That explains it here as well, and you’re a genius.
Why link to such a site? It might have valid info, but is more likely just junk and click bait.
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