Murder-Suicide in Northeast Arkansas
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Police say a Jonesboro woman was fatally shot
by her estranged husband today and a short while later her husband
apparently shot himself in his car as officers surrounded it.
Sergeant Doug Formon says after the woman was shot, her
assailant fled the scene. Identities were NOT immediately released.
A Jonesboro television station reported that witnesses said a man
approached a woman on the parking lot of the Union Planters main
bank building and shot her three times with a shotgun.
Police were involved a short time later in a standoff with the
suspect on the parking lot of a tire and auto service store on the
city`s east site. Witnesses said that, as police surrounded his
vehicle and demanded his surrender, the man turned on his car dome
light, put a shotgun to his chest and committed suicide.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
