A man killed outside a Family Dollar in Little Rock on Wednesday was shot by a store employee, police said.
Officers responded around 5:35 p.m. to the Family Dollar, 2408 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, and found 45-year-old Keith Cobbins suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest, according to a police report.
He was taken to UAMS Medical Center, where he died of his injury, the report states.
Police said in a news release there was a "disturbance" in the parking lot between Cobbins and an employee of the store, 42-year-old Shalonda Nelson, that escalated into the shooting.
Nelson was interviewed and released pending further investigation, police said.
Department spokesman officer Eric Barnes said investigators were still reviewing the store's video evidence to decide if Nelson's actions were justified.
The homicide came less than 24 hours after a shooting on the 2900 block of Romine Road that left one man dead and one injured.
Metro on 05/01/2020