Officers told Little Rock CBS affiliate KTHV-TV, Channel 11, that police pursued a white male suspect described as being in his 40s, driving a pickup truck, into Grant County. KTHV reported that officers apprehended him in Sheridan, and that he was shot during his capture.
State Police spokesman Bill Sadler told ArkansasBusiness.com earlier that the suspect was airlifted from the scene in Sheridan to an unknown hospital.
A news conference, originally set for 2:30 p.m., has been pushed back to 4 p.m., according to Little Rock Police.
He’s dead, unless there are two separate assailants and locations and they have them all mixed up.
From KATV7 ABC News, Little Rock:
[Police spokesman] Hastings says the suspect was chased by police and was shot and caught in Grant County, and is now confirmed dead. Hastings says it was unclear who shot the suspect.Moments before the Democratic headquarters shooting, a man with a gun had threatened workers at the Arkansas State Baptist Convention headquarters seven blocks east. Business manager Dan Jordan says a man with a gun told another manager that he'd just lost his job.
Jordan says the man pointed the gun but didn't fire.
The local CBS affiliate is reporting the same thing HERE.
Police seek motive in shooting of Arkansas Democratic leader
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Police on Thursday sought to uncover what led a gunman to burst into the headquarters of the Arkansas Democratic Party and kill the chairman, a top ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton, US media said.
Bill Gwatney, 48, was shot multiple times in the upper body and died shortly afterward at the hospital, police said.
His assailant, 50-year-old Tim Johnson, was fatally shot after a police chase into a neighboring county.
He had no criminal record and had reportedly been fired earlier that morning from his job at a Target store, but it was unclear if or how he knew Gwatney, according to local news reports.