Sergeant David Stout/Jonesboro Police Department
Jonesboro police are investigating a shooting in the neighborhood.
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Two people were killed and four others were injured in a shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas, according to law enforcement officials. The alleged gunman has died, police said.
The Jonesboro Police Department announced in a Facebook post that officers responded to the neighborhood just before 5 a.m. Sunday and found multiple victims suffering from gunshot wounds.
The shooting occurred during a private party at an abandoned building northeast of Little Rock, police spokeswoman Sally Smith told CNN.
Police said in the latest Facebook post that the suspect knew the male and female victims who were killed and another female victim who was injured. Smith said the two female victims were sisters and the incident was a domestic shooting.
Three other people were injured, police said.
The age of the victim is not yet known. Smith said the male shooter was in a relationship with one of the female victims. Police have not disclosed the manner of death.
Police are continuing to investigate, but say there is no active threat to the community.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, this incident was one of 73 mass shootings in the United States this year, and as per CNN, a mass shooting is defined as an incident in which at least four people are shot and killed, not including the shooter. Defined.
