UPDATE: 4:10 p.m. — PERRYVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say a man being booked into a central Arkansas jail on drug charges shot and killed a detention officer 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 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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PERRYVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Police say a county detention officer in central Arkansas was shot and killed by a man being booked into the jail.
No names and few details about the Wednesday night shooting at the Perry County Jail in Perryville, about 35 miles northwest of Little Rock, were immediately released.
A statement from Arkansas State Police says the suspect is a 37-year-old man who had been arrested by Perry County deputies.
The statement says state police were asked by the sheriff’s office to investigate the shooting and more information would be released later Thursday.
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