Arkansas grocery store reopens in wake of mass shooting that left 4 dead
Associated Press— The sounds that filled the Mad Butcher grocery store on Tuesday — the beeping barcode scanners, the rattle of shopping carts and cash register drawers opening — were familiar ones for customers and employees of the only grocery store in the small Arkansas town of Fordyce. “It’s more than a store,” said Dallas County Sheriff Mike Knoedl, who had responded to the shooting and was on hand for the store’s reopening. Everybody knows everybody.” The store’s closure left Fordyce without a grocery store and few nearby alternatives in the aftermath of the shooting, prompting several food distribution sites to be set up throughout the community. “If you’re bored and you need something to do, if you want to see somebody, just go to the grocery store,” Broughton said.