One dead after Fort Smith shooting Friday morning

Investigators with the Fort Smith Police Department work, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, at the site of a shooting death at a residence on the corner of Grand Avenue and 18th Street in Fort Smith. According to Aric Mitchell, FSPD public information officer, the homeowner, a 58-year-old male, contacted police around 9:45 a.m. to report the shooting of a 29-year-old knife-wielding man who allegedly broke into the residence. The suspected intruder died on scene from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The homeowner was taken to a hospital at his request to treat non-life-threatening injuries. Visit nwaonline.com/photo for today's photo gallery.
(NWA Democrat-Gazette/Hank Layton)
Investigators with the Fort Smith Police Department work, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, at the site of a shooting death at a residence on the corner of Grand Avenue and 18th Street in Fort Smith. According to Aric Mitchell, FSPD public information officer, the homeowner, a 58-year-old male, contacted police around 9:45 a.m. to report the shooting of a 29-year-old knife-wielding man who allegedly broke into the residence. The suspected intruder died on scene from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The homeowner was taken to a hospital at his request to treat non-life-threatening injuries. Visit nwaonline.com/photo for today's photo gallery. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Hank Layton)

FORT SMITH -- Police are investigating a fatal shooting in the 800 block of North 18th Street on Friday morning.

Aric Mitchell, police spokesman, said in a news release a homeowner in the area contacted the Police Department on Friday in reference to having shot a man who had reportedly broken into his residence while armed with a knife.

Officers arrived and found the body of a 29-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his abdomen. Mitchell didn't release the man's identity Friday morning pending notification of next of kin.

The homeowner, a 58-year-old man, was taken to a hospital for nonlife-threatening injuries at his request, according to Mitchell. Police believe this to be an isolated incident with no danger to the public.

  photo  An officer with the Fort Smith Police Department hangs police tape, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, at the site of a shooting death at a residence on the corner of Grand Avenue and 18th Street in Fort Smith. According to Aric Mitchell, FSPD public information officer, the homeowner, a 58-year-old male, contacted police around 9:45 a.m. to report the shooting of a 29-year-old knife-wielding man who allegedly broke into the residence. The suspected intruder died on scene from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The homeowner was taken to a hospital at his request to treat non-life-threatening injuries. Visit nwaonline.com/photo for today's photo gallery. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Hank Layton)
 
 
  photo  Investigators with the Fort Smith Police Department work, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, at the site of a shooting death at a residence on the corner of Grand Avenue and 18th Street in Fort Smith. According to Aric Mitchell, FSPD public information officer, the homeowner, a 58-year-old male, contacted police around 9:45 a.m. to report the shooting of a 29-year-old knife-wielding man who allegedly broke into the residence. The suspected intruder died on scene from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The homeowner was taken to a hospital at his request to treat non-life-threatening injuries. Visit nwaonline.com/photo for today's photo gallery. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Hank Layton)
 
 


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