A 24-year-old Cherokee Village man has been arrested in connection with two separate homicides over the weekend and an attempted killing.
Charles Paul Stovall confessed to killing two people and injuring a third, according to a news release from Sharp County Sheriff Mark Counts.
The two homicides occurred in Cherokee Village, and the attempted homicide took place in Highland, authorities said.
Arkansas State Police investigators were called to the scene of one of the homicides before noon on Monday, according to a news release from that agency.
At the residence on Warpath Drive in Cherokee Village, local authorities found the body of Hayleigh Gruger, 23.
While processing that crime scene, State Police investigators were sent to a second crime scene on FM Road in Highland, southeast of Cherokee Village.
"Debra Compton, 41, was transported from the Highland address to an area hospital where she is being treated for a stab wound sustained while she was in a vehicle with two men traveling in the area," according to State Police. "One of the men fled the crime scene and was later taken into custody by State Police special agents. The 24 year-old man is considered a suspect in the attack on Compton and the deaths of Gruger and a third woman."
Late Monday, Sharp County deputies and State Police special agents located the body of Linda Janny, 72, in her home on Lakeshore Drive in Cherokee Village.
"The bodies of Gruger and Janny have been transported to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory where autopsy examinations have begun to determine when the deaths occurred and each victim’s manner and cause of death," according to State Police.
Stovall is being held in the Sharp County jail awaiting formal charges, according to Counts.
Stovall had previous convictions in Sharp County for residential burglary, theft of property and drug offenses.
This story was originally published at 12:03 p.m.