Shooting Reported on Redbud Street in Pocahontas, One in Custody

POCAHONTAS, Ark. — One person has been arrested following a weekend in Pocahontas, according to information released by the Pocahontas Police Department and confirmed to NEA Report by city officials.

Officers responded Saturday to the 1900 block of Redbud Street in reference to a medical call, according to Pocahontas Mayor Keith Futrell. Police arrived to learn that an individual had suffered a gunshot wound.

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The Pocahontas Star Herald, which first broke the story, reported that one person was arrested. At 1:46 PM, jail records showed that Robert Grice was booked on an aggravated assault charge, a class D felony. However, as of Sunday morning, Grice is shown to be held on a first-degree battery charge, which is a Class A felony.

• (a) A person commits battery in the first degree if:
  • (1) With the purpose of causing serious physical injury to another person, the person causes serious physical injury to any person by means of a deadly weapon;
  • (2) With the purpose of seriously and permanently disfiguring another person or of destroying, amputating, or permanently disabling a member or organ of that other person’s body, the person causes such an injury to any person;
  • (3) The person causes serious physical injury to another person under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life;
  • (4) Acting alone or with one (1) or more other persons:
    • (A) The person commits or attempts to commit a felony; and
    • (B) In the course of and in furtherance of the felony or in immediate flight from the felony:
      • (i) The person or an accomplice causes serious physical injury to any person under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life; or
      • (ii) Another person who is resisting the felony or flight causes serious physical injury to any person;
  • (5) With the purpose of causing serious physical injury to an unborn child or to a woman who is pregnant with an unborn child, the person causes serious physical injury to the unborn child;
  • (6) The person knowingly causes physical injury to a pregnant woman in the commission of a felony or a Class A misdemeanor, and in so doing, causes serious physical injury to the pregnant woman’s unborn child, and the unborn child is subsequently born alive;
  • (7) The person knowingly, without legal justification, causes serious physical injury to a person he or she knows to be sixty (60) years of age or older or twelve (12) years of age or younger;
  • (8) With the purpose of causing physical injury to another person, the person causes physical injury to any person by means of a firearm; or
  • (9) The person knowingly causes serious physical injury to any person four (4) years of age or younger under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.
    source: Justia

Police said there is no ongoing threat to the public at this time.

Police said the information remains preliminary and that the investigation is ongoing. Search warrants were being executed in the area, and authorities asked the public to avoid the area while officers continued their work.

Additional information is expected to be released as it becomes available.