At least one person was killed following a shooting at a hospital north of Little Rock, capital of the US' Arkansas, authorities said.A suspect has been taken into custody, Xinhua news agency reported, citing Sherwood Police Chief Jeff .
After an active shooter threat at CHI St. Vincent North hospital in Sherwood, left one dead, witnesses explain what it was like to experience the unthinkable.
A Sherwood hospital was partially evacuated, placed on lockdown and surrounded by a police perimeter for almost three hours on Wednesday morning after a fatal shooting on the fourth floor, where the victim was visiting a patient, police said.
Police say a man visiting a patient at a Little Rock-area hospital was shot dead by a person he knew, and the suspect was arrested about an hour later at a gas station. Sherwood Police Chief Jeff Hagar said police found 21-year-old Leighton Whitfield dead Wednesday at CHI St. Vincent in Sherwood. Hagar said 24-year-old Raymond Lovett was arrested in Little Rock and charged with capital murder and aggravated assault. Sherwood is a city of about 33,000 people northeast of Little Rock.