UPDATE, June 23, 2022: Arkansas State Police have released more information on the deadly shooting at the Perry County Jail:
A criminal charge of capital murder was filed late today against Roderick Deshawn Lewis, 37, of North Little Rock.
Lewis was being booked into the Perry County Jail at Perryville last night on drug and paraphernalia charges when he is alleged to have shot detention officer Jeremiah Story. The gun reportedly used by Lewis was one he possessed when he arrived at the jail in the custody of local sheriff’s deputies.
Story, 21, of Oppelo, was shot about 10:20 p.m. while he stood inside a bathroom inside the jail where Lewis was changing out of civilian clothes into jail-issued attire.
Story died later at a Conway hospital.
Special Agents of the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division are continuing their investigation.
Lewis is currently incarcerated at the Faulkner County Jail.
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PERRYVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say a man being booked into a central Arkansas jail on drug charges shot and killed a guard before someone disarmed him.
The State Police says in a news release that Jeremiah Story, a 21-year-old detention officer at the Perry County Jail in Perryville, died at a hospital early Thursday.
The agency says 37-year-old Roderick Lewis, of North Little Rock, shot Story in a bathroom late Wednesday night while Lewis was changing out of civilian clothes and into jail-issued attire.
The State Police didn’t say in the news release how it Lewis allegedly came to have the gun, and the agency declined to specify when reached by phone.
A witness to the shooting was able to disarm Lewis.
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