Two police officers responsibility anti-drug work was shot by two men with AK-47s the length of a busy Arkansas between the state on Thursday and the think later died in a fire that injured the local sheriff and a deputy in a crowded Walmart parking lot, establishment said.
Officers pulled over a white minivan with Ohio certify plates, while "running drugs ban 'on throughway 40 in eastern Arkansas," said West Memphis Police Inspector Bert Shelton. Two men came out of the car with guns and open fire on officers, he said.
Sgt. Brandon Paudert, 39, son of West Memphis' police chief, died at the sight and Officer Bill Evans, 38, died at a hospital, establishment said. Evans made the first stop, and Paudert arrived moment later as endorsement, said helper Police Chief Mike Allen.