Volunteer firefighter fatally shot while on duty in Arkansas
Source: Associated Press
Volunteer firefighter fatally shot while on duty in Arkansas
Updated 11:58 am, Friday, January 22, 2016
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say a firefighter was shot to death while responding to a medical emergency call at a rural home near Little Rock.
Pulaski County Sheriff's Office Capt. Carl Minden says 29-year-old Ronald Jason Adams of the East Pulaski Volunteer Fire Department was responding to a call of a person having a seizure at about 5 a.m. Friday when he was shot by a man at the home. Minden says Adams later died at a North Little Rock hospital.
Minden says Adams also worked as a full-time firefighter with the nearby Sherwood Fire Department.
Minden says a suspect in the shooting is being questioned by police.
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Firefighter fatally shot during medical response outside North Little Rock
By John Moritz
This article was published today at 7:32 a.m. Updated today at 11:44 a.m.
A firefighter was fatally shot while responding to a patient with a seizure Friday morning in Pulaski County, a spokesman with the sheriff's office said.
Officials identified the firefighter as Ronald Jason Adams, 29, who went by his middle name and was a full-time member of the Sherwood Fire Department in addition to volunteering with the East Pulaski Fire Department.
Adams was working for the volunteer agency when he responded to a report on Dortch Loop Road outside North Little Rock around 5 a.m. and was shot, Pulaski County sheriff's office spokesman Capt. Carl Minden said.
Adams was taken to Baptist Health Medical Center in North Little Rock and pronounced dead, Minden said.
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