TRUMANN - Trumann police officers shot and injured a man Tuesday afternoon during an altercation on a street where an officer was fatally shot in 2011, Chief Chad Henson said.
Henson did not name the officers or the man who was shot, saying the Arkansas State Police will begin an investigation of the shooting today.
Officers went to a Pine Street home in search of a man wanted on a felony warrant, Henson said. When they arrived, the man fled. Police chased him, and the man was shot in the chest during an altercation, Henson said.
The police chief said the man was alive at a hospital but would not say how many times he was shot.
Tuesday’s shooting happened on the north end of Pine Street, less than half a mile from where Trumann patrol officer Jonathan Schmidt was shot and killed during an April 12, 2011, traffic stop.
A Greene County Circuit Court jury convicted Jerry Lard of Trumann of capital murder and sentenced him to death in July 2012.
“This is happening more often,” Henson said of officer-involved shootings. “There are so many more than there were five years ago. I don’t know what’s happening.”
Paragould police officers shot and killed a man at an apartment complex Oct. 3 after he approached them with a butcher knife. A prosecutor ruled the shooting was justified.
Arkansas, Pages 11 on 10/23/2013