An unnamed
“good guy with a gun” put a stop to what could have been a horrific mass killing over the weekend by using his own weapon to gun down a massacre suspect, KFSM-TV reported. Authorities said an armed 26-year-old Zachary Arnold, a resident at the Fort Smith, Arkansas, apartment complex where the event occurred, was outside his building Saturday morning when he began screaming for residents to come outside.
Arnold, who was armed with a rifle, was first met by an elderly neighbor, 87-year-old Lois Hicks. One neighbor told the station that Hicks and another elderly woman came out to “
An unnamed
“good guy with a gun” put a stop to what could have been a horrific mass killing over the weekend by using his own weapon to gun down a massacre suspect, KFSM-TV reported. Authorities said an armed 26-year-old Zachary Arnold, a resident at the Fort Smith, Arkansas, apartment complex where the event occurred, was outside his building Saturday morning when he began screaming for residents to come outside.
Arnold, who was armed with a rifle, was first met by an elderly neighbor, 87-year-old Lois Hicks. One neighbor told the station that Hicks and another elderly woman came out to “
An unnamed
“good guy with a gun” put a stop to what could have been a horrific mass killing over the weekend by using his own weapon to gun down a massacre suspect, KFSM-TV reported. Authorities said an armed 26-year-old Zachary Arnold, a resident at the Fort Smith, Arkansas, apartment complex where the event occurred, was outside his building Saturday morning when he began screaming for residents to come outside.
Arnold, who was armed with a rifle, was first met by an elderly neighbor, 87-year-old Lois Hicks. One neighbor told the station that Hicks and another elderly woman came out to “
The wreath and flowers were placed carefully outside Lois Hicks apartment.
Hicks, 87, had lived at the complex for a long time. She was always friendly; always had a smile on her face.
“She was like an angel. She was a real sweet lady, her neighbor Ron Gatling said.
Gatling added that Hicks was a good neighbor.
“She’s going to be missed, Gatling said.
Police said Zachary Arnold, 26, shot Hicks in her home Saturday morning in an apartment complex in the 3500 block of South 74th Street. Arnold also lived at the apartment complex.
Arnold was armed with a semi-automatic rifle and after he shot Hicks, police said he continued to shoot at neighboring apartments.
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Fort Smith police say 26-year-old Zachary Arnold opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle in his apartment complex on Saturday at around 7:30 a.m.
The victim, 87-year-old Lois Hicks, was shot multiple times inside her apartment
Arnold reportedly continued to fire into neighboring apartments before he was shot dead by another neighbor
Residents credited the neighbor with putting an end to the shooting