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Jordanne Drinkwater, 32, a Walmart employee at anArkansas Walmart Superstore, was fatally stabbed during her late-night shift by a man who believed he was killing a "demon" who was stalking him.
Officers from the Conway Police Department arrived within roughly a minute and encountered the suspect, later identified as 37-year-old Zeddrick Ross, still armed with a knife. They were dispatched at 10:58 p.m. Tuesday to reports that a man was stabbing an employee at the Walmart Supercenter on U.S. 65, according to police.
The cops issued multiple commands for the man to drop the knife, but he refused to do so and then began to approach an officer. It was a lunatic who brought a knife to a gun fight. The cop shot and missed, but another cop tased the suspect and took him into custody.
Ross is currently being held without bond on a charge of first-degree murder at the Faulkner County Detention Center.
Ms. Drinkwater was given emergency aid by police and then by medical personnel but unfortunately died at the scene.
The suspect was taken into custody, booked into the Faulkner County Detention Center where he will await trial and probably not get a death sentence like he gave to Jordanne Drinkwater. Fortunately, nobody else was injured.
Ross did not know Ms. Drinkwater and he wasn't employed at Walmart. Police described the event as a random act of violence, and the investigation is ongoing.
According to the police affidavit, reviewed by Fox News Digital, Ross told a detective he had been pursued by what he described as a "demon" and armed himself with a knife for protection.
Ross said he believed he was confronting that figure when he stabbed Drinkwater multiple times, later telling investigators he realized she did not resemble the person he thought had been following him.
Local liberals may possibly start calling for a ban on knives like the mayor of London did after multiple stabbing took place several years ago.
The affidavit said that the suspect told police he had stolen the knife earlier and had gone to the store intending to obtain another weapon. An officer who discharged a firearm during the encounter and missed, has been placed on administrative leave in spite of his lousy aim. This, however, is a routine step following an officer-involved shooting, the department said.
According to records from the Independence County District Court, Ross' criminal history includes a 2020 theft misdemeanor charge and conviction and a 2022 obstructing governmental operations in Faulkner County District Court conviction. In 2022, he was sentenced to one year of probation.
Drinkwater, who went affectionately as Puff to friends, was described as an "amazing human being." Sam Slaughter, who knew Drinkwater for nearly 10 years, told KATV that she heard the news of her friend’s death when another friend texted her.
"I called him and I said, ‘You’re kidding. It's not . . . not, not Jordan, not Puff, right? Like, that’s not Puff, right?’ And the world stopped," Slaughter told the outlet.
"I never met somebody as, as, as pure as Jordan. It was just I don’t—I didn’t understand. I still don’t understand why it had to be her. She helped change my entire life for the better—everything from staying sober to the way I think about the world and how it works and not putting more hate into it and just trying to do better. She was an amazing human being. She’s going to be so, so missed."
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