Arkansas homeowner pleads innocent in fatal shooting of firefighter during medical response

Mark Pruitt leaves the Pulaski County Courthouse on Monday.
Mark Pruitt leaves the Pulaski County Courthouse on Monday.

A Pulaski County homeowner charged in the fatal shooting of a firefighter during a medical response earlier this year pleaded innocent Monday in circuit court.

Mark Pruitt, 48, is charged with manslaughter in the death of Ronald Jason Adams, 29, a volunteer with the East Pulaski Fire Department, Arkansas Online previously reported. If convicted, Pruitt could face up tot 10 years in prison.

Pruitt appeared Monday afternoon before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Barry Sims with his attorney, Hubert Alexander Jr., for his arraignment hearing.

Adams, also a full-time firefighter with the Sherwood Fire Department, was fatally shot while responding around 5 a.m. Jan. 22 to a patient with a seizure on Dortch Loop Road outside North Little Rock.

Another person at the residence who was not Pruitt called to report the seizure victim, according to police.

Sims set Pruitt's two-day trial for Nov. 29-30. He is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 24 for an omnibus hearing.

Read Tuesday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.

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Police work outside a home where a firefighter was fatally shot earlier Friday morning.

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Dortch Loop Road

Dortch Loop Road

The Sherwood Fire Department on Friday posted this message and photo to its Facebook page in memory of Ronald Jason Adams, 29.

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