Officer, suspect die, trooper wounded in Arkansas shootings

STUTTGART, Ark. — An Arkansas police officer was shot and killed, and the suspect later died in a shootout with a state police SWAT workforce that wounded a state trooper, Arkansas State Police stated Thursday.

Jacob Cole Barnes, 31, fatally shot Stuttgart police Sgt. Donald Scoby, 45, late Wednesday, police stated in a information launch. Barnes, of Mountain View, was shot and killed early Thursday throughout a standoff at a house close to Stuttgart, about 45 miles (70 kilometers) southeast of Little Rock, police stated.

Stuttgart police tried to cease the automobile Barnes was driving about 11 p.m. Wednesday, state police stated. The assertion didn’t clarify the rationale for the tried site visitors cease.

A automobile chase ensued, then Barnes deserted the automobile and he shot Scoby throughout a subsequent foot chase, police stated.

Barnes pressured his manner inside a house. A feminine resident hid from Barnes inside the house and was later freed by state police, unhurt, in response to the police assertion.

Through the standoff, Barnes shot and injured a SWAT workforce member “who sustained a non-life threatening wound,” the assertion stated, including. “Barnes was fatally wounded throughout an alternate of gunfire with SWAT workforce members.”

Authorities haven’t stated what number of troopers opened hearth.