“Motives of Fordyce, Arkansas shooting suspect are unclear,” police say

Police arrested 44-year-old Travis Eugene Posey of nearby New Edinburg on Friday night. He was treated for injuries that were not life-threatening, Hagar said.

Hagar said the gunman first opened fire in the store’s parking lot, then entered the store and “fired indiscriminately” before returning to the parking lot and exchanging gunfire with police, who arrived within three minutes of the first 911 call. The suspect was injured in the exchange of gunfire.

The sheriff’s inmate registry for Ouachita County, which borders Dallas County, shows Posey is being held there. He is charged with four counts of capital crimes, the Arkansas Department of Public Safety said in a news release Saturday. If convicted, he could face the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

Roy Sturgis (50), Shirley Taylor (62), Callie Weems (23) and Ellen Shrum (81) were killed in the shooting. Shrum died on Saturday evening.

Authorities said two police officers were among the injured.

According to a database compiled by Northeastern University, the Associated Press and USA Today, this is the 12th mass murder in the United States this year. The database defines a fatal mass murder as a mass killing “in which most or all of the victims are killed by gunfire.”

Fordyce is located about 60 miles south of downtown Little Rock and has a population of about 3,700, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Weems was a nurse and mother of a 10-month-old girl, NBC News reported. Hagar said that when the violence began, Weems did not flee the store but stopped to help a gunshot victim and was then shot herself.

“It was one of the most selfless acts I have ever seen,” he said.

Taylor lovingly cared for her multigenerational family in Chambersville, caring for her diabetic husband and mother and helping care for her grandchildren, her daughter told NBC News.

An obituary for Sturgis published Sunday said he lived in Kingsland, about five miles northeast of Fordyce, and leaves behind a daughter, stepson and other family members.

One of the couple attacked by the gunman – Thomas Brazil Sr., 65, and Sharon Brazil, 61 – had not even entered the store.

They were in the parking lot in front of the store when the gunman started shooting at their car, their daughter Nancy Brazil told the Washington Post.

A bullet grazed Thomas Brazil’s forehead. His wife was physically unharmed.

“It’s a blessing that they’re OK,” Nancy Brazil said, adding that her parents’ car was shot more than 20 times.

Kelsey Baker and Amber Ferguson contributed to this report.

This is a developing story and will be updated.