Prosecuting Attorney S. Kyle Hunter said Thursday that an investigation is still underway following a shooting Wednesday on the parking lot of a gas station that resulted in the death of one man and injuries to another.
“At this point, no arrests have been made,” Hunter said.
Jefferson County Coroner Chad Kelley identified the deceased as Tommy Holcomb Sr., 60. Police said the injured man was Edward Earl Blundell, 29, of Pine Bluff.
The shooting occurred at the Speedway at 3700 S. Camden Road at about 5:45 p.m. Wednesday.
Holcomb was the Constable of Niven Township, which is located in the Watson Chapel area, and the younger brother of Jefferson County Judge Mike Holcomb.
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A doctor in the emergency room at Jefferson Regional Medical Center pronounced the constable dead at 7:06 p.m. Wednesday. His body was sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office at Little Rock Thursday for an autopsy.
Following the incident, Blundell was driven to JRMC by his wife, Carrie Blundell, where he was treated and released, police reports said.
According to a report from Officer Jeremy Brown, Carrie Blundell said she was inside the car with her husband when the shooting occurred. Police spokesman Lt. Bob Rawlinson also confirmed Thursday that the couple’s 1-year-old child was in the backseat of their vehicle when Edward Blundell was shot in the front passenger seat.
“Blundell stated her husband and the victim of the shooting got into an argument over them almost hitting each other with their vehicles,” Brown said in his report. “She advised me that both of them pulled their guns out and began shooting.”
Brown reported that Carrie Blundell also said “her husband used her gun that was kept under the seat and that she nor he had a permit for the gun.”
Officer Nathan Smith reported that the car the Blundells had been in was found unoccupied on the parking lot of the hospital.
“Upon looking at the vehicle I noticed the passenger side window had a hole in it,” Smith said in his report. “It appeared the window was shot from the inside out. I also noticed two .9-millimeter casings laying in the front passenger seat.
“I noticed a bullet hole above the passenger front door frame,” Smith said in the report. “I also noticed the passenger rear window had a hole in it. I was unable to determine if the window was shot from the inside or the outside in.”
Officer Chris Wieland, one of the first officers on the scene, reported that when he arrived, he noticed several people performing CPR on a man later identified as Holcomb.
“I noticed the male had a blood spot in the center of his shirt,” Wieland said in his report. “I noticed he was pale, white and aspirated.”
Wednesday night, Rawlinson said the shooting was the apparent result of road rage.
Rawlinson said Holcomb pulled into the parking lot of the gas station first, followed closely by a car containing the Blundells. The wife was driving.
Holcomb reportedly got out of his vehicle and walked up to the passenger side of the car where he and Edward Blundell reportedly exchanged words before the shooting occurred. Rawlinson said Thursday that at one point during the argument, both men were out of their vehicles, but that the shooting did not occur until Blundell was back inside his car.
Rawlinson said Thursday police served a search warrant on the car the Blundells were in and located a weapon reportedly used in the shooting. That weapon and a gun recovered near Holcomb’s body will both be sent to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory at Little Rock for testing.
Police are continuing their investigation into the incident.