An Arkansas corrections officer was fatally shot inside a Perryville jail while booking an armed suspect, police said Thursday.
37-year-old Roderick Lewis was busted for drug and paraphernalia possession by Perry County Sheriff’s deputies and was brought to the facility where Officer Jeremiah Story, 21, worked.
“Story was shot with a pistol as he stood in a bathroom where the inmate was changing out of civilian clothes into jail-issued attire,” Arkansas State Police said in a statement.
“The gun reportedly used by Lewis was one he possessed when he arrived at the jail in the custody of local sheriff’s deputies.”
Following Story’s death at a local hospital, Lewis was charged with capital murder in addition to the original drug-related offenses.