SEBASTIAN COUNTY, Ark. – A local sheriff’s deputy and the chief of the Hackett Police Department chief are reported to have been shot.
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Hollenbeck said the suspect, 34-year-old Billy Monroe Jones, wanted to cause a “ruckus” ahead of a court appearance.
Officers are in a standoff with a man who is suspected of shooting two Sebastian County officers on Wednesday (Aug. 10), according to the Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office.
Sebastian County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Philip Pevehouse said deputies surrounded the house where Jones had holed himself up after shooting the two cops. Two helicopters and Johnson County Emergency Management all terrain vehicles were also deployed to search for the suspect.
Both injured officers were transported to a local hospital.
Sebastian County Deputy Bill Cooper and Hackett chief of police Darrell Spells had been called to Jones’ property due to reports of a domestic disturbance.
Sebastian County officials tell 5 News that the suspect is Billy Jones, who is barricaded inside a home near Mockingbird Hill Road.
Sebastian County Sheriff Bill Hollenbeck says that Deputy Bill Cooper was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday.
Spells suffered “superficial” wounds after he was grazed by a bullet to the head, Sebastian County Sheriff Bill Hollenbeck told KHBS.
There’s no word yet on the conditions of the officers.
The Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office, Fort Smith Police, Greenwood Police and Arkansas State Police are all responding to the shooting. Law enforcement asked people to stay away from the area. The situation started when Jones’s father called police because he was concerned about his son, the county said.
The officers were shot while responding to an unspecified call for service Wednesday morning, Pevehouse said.
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The governor says he didn’t have details about the Wednesday morning shooting in Hackett.
