Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Shot Dead

Bill Gwatney was shot in his Little Rock office and died a few hours later.  The gunman fired three shots, and was followed in a 25-mile chase by police who eventually shot and killed him as well.

Just before noon, Mr. Gwatney’s secretary burst into a florist shop across the street from the party headquarters, said Sarah Lee, a sales clerk there. “She was saying that somebody was in her office shooting a gun, and she didn’t know if he had been hit,” Ms. Lee said. “She was just screaming, so we got her behind the counter and locked the door because we didn’t know if someone was following her.”

The secretary said a man had come into the party headquarters and insisted on seeing the chairman, whose office is the first room behind the reception desk, Ms. Lee said. When the secretary tried to put him off, by offering him bumper stickers, he walked past her into the office. “He kept saying he needed to see the chairman, and then just went around her and started shooting,” Ms. Lee said.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.