Everybody overdam butcher parking lot shooting a goddamn shotgun. They know she went in the mad butcher shooting mother >> trying to shoot the police. >> On June 21st, 2024, officers with multiple departments in Fort Ice, Arkansas received a 911 call about an active shooter at a grocery store. Moments later, officers encountered the gunman. I've been shot. I've been shot by Ritter. overnam butcher parking lot shooting a goddamn shotgun. They done she went in the mad butcher shooting mother >> trying to shoot the police. We have an officer down at the mad booster in front driving away strange beating strange on the subject right now. >> Help. Help. >> I need help over at Rena Center in Ford ice. And there is a shooting going on. There's somebody lying in the parking lot. shot. [Music] >> Heat. shot fire. He's done. He's done. He's still moving there. [Applause] That's him in the green shirt, right? T4. 301 units. I'm over between a white truck and a red car. >> Central, where my guys at any of I'm on it. Let's go. Come on. I hear you 67. Please report in right here. Romeo, >> where you hit, buddy? Where you at? >> I don't know. >> Roll over, buddy. Roll over. Come on. Roll over. Roll over. You're good. You're good. Zipil, zip, zip. Zip. Looks like he just hit the face. >> Side. Side in my arm. >> In your arm. >> Where in your arm? >> I don't know. >> You're You're caught in your finger. >> You're fine. Is there anything I can do to help you guys? >> No, we're all good. >> I'm about to throw up. >> Hey, go get the ambulance. Come over here. Where's he at? >> Get on your side. >> You should be by the uh >> Hey, turn him on the side where you turn on. >> I got you. >> You're fine, Johnson. We're going to make it. Come on. Open your eyes. >> Open your eyes. >> Yeah. Hey, >> talk to him. >> Everything's going to being fine, Johnson. >> Hey, keep open your eyes. >> Open your eyes. Keep both of them. Come on. >> I need out my eyes. >> No, you got shot in the face a little bit. >> It's going to hurt, buddy. >> How are you, buddy? It's going to hurt. >> Okay. >> I'm hurting. I miss mying tooth. Sorry. All right, buddy. On your side. On your side. On your side. >> Right there. >> Give me some air. >> Everybody got >> Is that the only place you think you're hit? >> Oh, you're only hitting the arm, buddy. >> Yeah. >> I can only see one. >> Okay. >> Let's get that uh get get his vest off of him. Let's start taking him out. >> Side zip right here. Hey, you lo a little bit of blood down there. >> Yeah, kick his ass. >> Come on, quick, buddy. >> Can you feel where else you got shot, buddy? >> Go ahead. >> Go ahead. >> We're waiting on paramedics. I'm a caravan. >> That's right. >> Wait back here. Hey, we need to take a wounded. One of our guys is hit. >> Okay. >> Can you drag for an officer to the hospital? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Get him over here. >> Well, where's the hospital at? >> Let's go. >> Who's in this car? 3041. Y'all need >> help. >> Somebody else has got a gun. Get inside. >> All right. Watch your foot. Go. Go. >> All right. You want to go out here and hang right? Yeah. Park left. Hang right. Where you going? >> We're going to go in this one. We need to go get a >> stre [Applause] still with us. >> Yeah. Hang on. [Applause] [Music] >> Can you stand? No. Stay here. Stay with me. All right. Hang tight. Got your phone on? >> No, it's in my unit. >> All right, >> let's get you loaded up on the stretcher. The quicker we get you in there, quick, you can get off. >> Okay. >> Hey, is this >> okay? My name is Scott Parish with the highway police. >> Your son, we got him here at the hospital. He has been uh shot. They're loading him on a stretcher. I don't know what happened. And I just got >> been shot. >> Yeah, but we're here at the hospital. They got We got him on a stretcher. He's going in into the hospital right now. That's all I know. I just got here. >> Okay. Okay. >> Here. >> I'm not supposed to go, mama. I got to go. Okay. >> Okay. >> Okay. I'm on my way. >> This is This is sad. Oh my god. Now, this happened in Fort Dits, Arkansas, y'all, at our Mad Butcher, the only store that's in town. A white man come in shoot and he didn't shot several of people at our only store. >> Oh my god. >> This man over here, he shot us like three or four times. This lady in the parking lot, she might be dead, y'all. >> Got shot in the face, too, Chris. Oh my god, he is shot in the face. >> I never seen nothing like this. >> Where is the man at the did the shoot? >> Huh? You're with God. Who else? Give me some gloves. I got gloves, too. He's got a wound to the back of the head and the side of the head. Is that the one you need? >> Yes. >> Here's your gloves. >> What you need me to do? >> Get everybody back. >> Let's start getting people back >> here. Don't Let me see the black package. >> Don't touch him without gloves on, man. >> You all right? >> Yeah. What do you come here do this for? >> I'm going to go get my bigger ice hack. Okay. You don't need more than that. >> Maybe. >> Look, he Oh my god. Why can't they put him on a stretcher? I'll give you another thing secure for personnel to go inside 1:00. Man, is this lady dead? This lady haven't even moved yet. You got in the back. >> Yeah. >> 48 rock in this area. How >> is my daughter? You [ __ ] [ __ ] They going to pay for that lady right there. >> That's the older woman, too. >> Yo, she dead. 488. >> Dallas County Sheriff >> is requesting another ambulance to come to the front of Mad Butcher. I don't know how many are down. >> Hey, man. Man, I just want to know how my daughter is. >> One thing at a time. Like, golly, dude. Backwards. [ __ ] That's why I say Lord my life is too short. You never know when somebody going to act crazy and come through. Now this a small town of Florida. I said look what didn't happen. >> Hey. Thank you, bro. >> Oh my god. But how many in man shot? >> They say he just went in there and let loose. >> Yeah, we have a wheelchair or something. >> They got it. Wait down here. See if you kick that door open. >> It's gummed up with glass. I'm in the yard and they told me to come. >> Hey, listen. >> Watch out, Billy. Watch out. That'll work, Billy. >> Ambulance coming. I got this. >> Come on. Grab your legs. Grab that. I'll get her. >> We got We got her. >> Mike, help. >> Let's go. Let's go. >> Hold on. >> The one in the parking lot. Yeah. The blue shirt on the far side over there. He said he said he's in heaven right now is all I know. >> Oh man, I'm sorry. I wouldn't have done that in any other circumstance. Man, I'm just worried about my daughter is my only kid. >> That was a female. >> Hey, is she you know Sheila's all right? >> Huh? You know Sheila's all right? I have no I don't I don't know about anybody. >> Please come let me out. Who is that? Who is that? Who is that? 486 lower. [Music] >> Hey man, please. Hey, man. Hey. Hey. 98 from the hospital in Fort [Music] >> I'll take a [Music] >> Oh man, come [Music] Hey, we got one in the corner. >> One in the corn a casualty in the corner. >> Yes. >> Has this been clear? >> No. To my knowledge. Anyway, >> hallway police officer police [Music] clearly. It's okay. Mr. Robert's here. Okay. You want to see him? Okay. Follow me. Okay. Go get your tongue. I got to pull my gun now. Okay. [Music] You hug my back. Okay. That's where the protection is. >> Just keep your eyes closed. Close your eyes. [Music] >> Billy, [Music] keep your eyes closed. >> Hey, we're bringing them out. Bringing them out. They've been in that cooler. >> Hey, Mike. Where's my We got one right there in the corner. >> To my right. To my right. >> Okay. Your master has responded and all that good stuff. >> Yes. Yes. They're still escorting people out of this uh store. So, so the shooting part is over. It's respons. Yes. Clean up. Awesome. Mr. Leard, can you hear me? Right here. Here's your Here's Robert. Okay, here he is. He's in that corner. [Music] >> Yes, it for me. [Music] Y'all clear the back. >> Yeah. Okay. Scott, we got to move our cars. They're landing on a bird. [Music] Hey man, can you loosen these cuffs a little bit? How many was shot? >> I have no clue. >> Man, my daughter in there is my only kid, man. I wouldn't have never done that if it hadn't been for these circumstances. Please lift things up so I can My family's calling me to see what's going on. Please, man. I'm fine. I won't do nothing else. I'm fine. I need I lost mine. This is not for surgical, but that's him right there. I know. >> Hey, everything. I'm all right. Yeah. >> No, he was done before I got here. >> Yeah, I got to go. I got to go. [Music] >> You watch this door. Let me move my truck. >> Yeah. >> You going to need that, but you might. >> Well, better have it not need it. >> It is. It is hot. >> No, I appreciate you. >> Water. >> Hey, [Music] the big man in the middle of the parking lot. His grandmother's dead in the back. David's about to go tell him cuz they're family. They do not let him in this corner. Big guy right down in the middle. So, if he comes this way, do not let him in the store. All right. Sh. You heard that? >> Hey, uh, find Roy find Royce. He needs to move his truck. Okay. >> They're going to have to take pictures. We got talking about them down on the far east >> on the where the bird where the birds going. Yeah. >> Everything pass. Is she part of the engine? >> No. She know. >> I'm going to go grab mine. [Music] >> Hey, man. My man. Okay. I I've heard you the 500 times, man. Billy, what's the deal with the guy in my cage? He was the guy in cuffs up here. >> Uh, you'll have to talk to uh Jordan about him. >> I'm sorry. >> He was arrested. Oh, yeah. Are you okay? >> Yeah. >> Go get a long gun. >> Go get a long gun in case this guy gets >> We got to keep people from coming in here. It could get bad. Go get you a good long gun. >> Excuse the guy. >> Yeah, my bad. [Music] >> I just want to know how my daughter is. That's all. I just want to know how my daughter is. That's all I want to know. >> Okay, >> Billy. I'm going to go help him clear the back. There's one room they haven't >> Wait, you talking about the We We cleared this earlier. Yeah. >> Everything all the way around except for that office right there. >> Yeah. There was two in the back and two. Yeah. We got them out. >> Oh, we have one body back here. >> I know. In the corner. >> Yeah. Okay. I was just want to make sure. >> Hey, that's my Harley. We all know they're going to bring me back. Hello. >> Mad. >> Yeah. Yeah. We're just clearing casualties. This has been real bad. >> I I'll talk to you when I can, but everything's okay. We're >> here with you. You worry about nothing. I know how you can shoot. >> Hey Jordan, >> what's the deal with the guy that he's pants in my car? >> Uh, he's going for resisting disorderly and assault. >> Okay. >> I failed trying to get to the cooler and my arm is hurt. >> Is it Have you looked at it? No, but it's it's hurting on the inside. >> Right here. >> I think you hit right here. Yeah. You see that? >> But my arm is skin up. But I'm scared to make my arm >> there. >> Hello. >> Hello. Hello. Dude, I don't know. Before you say it, I don't know who your daughter is or what she looks like or even where she is. >> She's a She's She's got She's got long kind of grayish hair >> that Man, I'm bleeding. These cuffs have got me bleeding back here. Can you loosen them a little bit, man? Sorry. 4595 >> No to do something with >> I'm about to take him to the Where's Jordan at? >> Who's Jordan? >> The tall skinny deputy running around. >> Come on. >> They got him assault on an officer. Oh no. You get some ice on your shoulder. I got I got to check this guy on my car. All right. Come on. Are >> you going to trash him to jail? >> Yeah. You taking me to jail? >> Yeah. >> Oh, man. Hey, are y'all are y'all helping? >> I'm transporting right now. >> Okay. All right. Is that Who is this? >> I don't know. >> And my daughter was in there and I >> He's got assaulting officer and some >> What about the one behind? >> Are you transform one as well? >> I was going to go with him. I don't know if that guy's going to give him. I really want to know how my daughter is, man. My only kid here. >> Where is it? 48. Go ahead. >> I'll be going along with 488. This guy when he was involved or something got to fight with a cop or something up here on this transport, >> man. I don't know. Apparently none of these deputies know this guy or anything like that. And uh apparently he went in apparently four or five people got shot. This that officer got shot. I think his name was Brian Johnson. >> I think some mom's name Brenda or something like that. >> I don't know there anymore. >> Okay. And then they put this guy in the back of Oliver's car. Apparently he got into a fight with a cop up there or something. One of the deputies or something. So, what happened to you? >> H I don't know what this guy's issue is, but uh but hey, we're here at the jail. I'm going to go help him get this guy inside. >> You not going to be cover? >> I ain't give you no problem. I ain't never been in jail before in my life. >> I would probably be right there, too, if my child was in this. >> That's what I said. Be in there, too, wouldn't you? [Music] What the [ __ ] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] 12. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. [Music] down. [Music] Okay. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] down. [Music] Heat. [Music] By the time officers were able to neutralize the shooter, he had taken the lives of four people and injured 11 others, including injuring two police officers. Midwest Safety does not identify mass shooters. The suspect was a 44 yearear-old male who had only one prior arrest in 2011 for misdemeanor criminal possession of a weapon. Authorities were unable to establish any connection between the shooter and his victims and no motive to the shooting was ever established. He was arrested and charged with four counts of capital murder and 11 counts of attempted capital murder. He was held without bond and pleaded not guilty. However, 13 months later, the suspect changed his plea to guilty and was convicted on all counts. The defendant was sentenced to four life terms, one for each murder, as well as 220 years for the 11 counts of attempted murder. The decision to pursue life in prison over the death penalty was a unanimous decision among the victim's families. The defendant is currently serving his sentence at the Varnner Supermax unit. You have to understand uh the thing that makes this so personal and so difficult is that these officers and deputies that responded to the scene, they these are their friends, their neighbors. Uh one thing that stuck out to me as I've reviewed some of the statements from the officers involved, from the victims involved, they don't refer to the uh victims generically. They're calling them by name. Uh they know these people. They're their friends. They're their neighbors. They're their families. So, uh, it makes it particularly difficult in a situation like this with, um, they knew everyone personally from the suspect, uh, to the to the victims on scene. So, it makes it very difficult. And when bullets rip through a place of peace, there's no time for hesitation. The difference between survival and strategy often comes down to training, instinct, and the courage of a few ordinary people who refuse to freeze in the face of terror. Now, for law enforcement, this reality is non-negotiable. Staying sharp on active shooter training isn't optional. It's life or death. And sadly, officers were not immune from the danger here. Two were shot and wounded while dealing with the threat. And that's what separates training from theory. Because in the horror of an active shooter, even the ones with a badge and a gun can be cut down. Now, at the 30-minute mark of this video, we see a man swing open the loading dock door, creating a lifeline for dozens of people trapped inside. And in that instant, his decision transformed mayhem into a path toward survival. And I want to acknowledge Mr. Silus Compton because he made a bold choice. He shot it at the gum and pulling the shooters focus onto himself. And that dangerous act bought others just enough time to flee out the loading dock. And that's a chilling reminder of the risk that people take in moments where the officers are expected to step forward. And this store isn't just a grocery store. It's actually the heartbeat of a small Arkansas town. And it's the place where neighbors cross paths daily. And when it closed for 11 days after the shooting, it left a void that was felt across the entire community. And for law enforcement, that fact carries weight. Because when tragedy hits, it doesn't just wound individuals. It destabilizes everyday life of an entire town. But here's the thing. When the store went dark, the community lit up. Because out of the worst kind of darkness, people stood shoulder-to-shoulder and prove that evil does not win. Our hearts sincerely go out to the families who lost loved ones, to the injured, and to all the families impacted by this tragedy. No training, no words, and no afteraction report will ever bring them back. And that's why law enforcement never treats active shooter training like another checkbox. Every repetition, every drill, and every hour of practice is about giving families a chance to never sit in that front row at a