STUTTGART, Ark.—An Arkansas police officer was shot and killed, and the suspect later died in a shootout with a state police SWAT team that wounded a state trooper, Arkansas State Police said Thursday.
Jacob Cole Barnes, 31, fatally shot Stuttgart police Sgt. Donald Scoby, 45, late Wednesday, police said in a news release. Barnes, of Mountain View, was shot and killed early Thursday during a standoff at a home near Stuttgart, about 45 miles (70 kilometers) southeast of Little Rock, police said.
Stuttgart police attempted to stop the vehicle Barnes was driving at about 11 p.m. Wednesday, state police said. The statement did not explain the reason for the attempted traffic stop….