Arkansas Shooting Leaves 3 Dead: 40-Year-Old Porfirio Hernandez Kills Two Men and Girl, Then Himself
Just weeks after a shooting in a Kansas Jewish community center and hospice home left two dead, a shooting embroils a southern state. According to initial reports by police, the assailant is dead, as well as three victims. Many more are wounded.
Between noon and 1 p.m. the shooter opened fire at a house in Jonesboro, Arkansas. According to the New York Daily News, the home was having some sort of gathering or party when the shooter opened fire. A 911 call was made at 1 p.m. at the home, however, 22 minutes later police responded to another report of a shooting at a nearby business. A vehicle matching the description from the first shooting was sighted at the scene.
Jonesboro police Sgt. Doug Formon said Saturday evening at a news conference that a man and a 13-year-old girl were killed in the first shooting. Four others were injured in the event and were transported to hospitals in Memphis, Tennessee. Two other children were in critical condition.
Later that same day, at around 3:30 p.m. a local farmer reported a car parked in the middle of a county road, according to Formon. When police arrived, they discovered the suspected shooter dead in the driver's seat. The man had committed suicide.
Though police initially did not reveal the names of the shooter and victims, on Sunday, Formon disclosed the information. The shooter, 40-year-old Porfirio Hernandez, was an acquaintance or friend of the family, but there has been no motive as of yet for the shooting. The man killed was 38 years old, and the girl's age was revised to 12, according to the AP. A 31-year-old man was the third victim.
Three people remain in critical condition in Memphis hospitals: a 43-year-old man, a 36-year-old woman and an 8-year old boy. The other child, a 10-year-old boy, is in stable condition.
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