On the morning of August 10, 2016, Sebastian County Sheriff’s Corporal Bill Cooper, 66, was shot during an ambush while responding to a reported domestic disturbance near Greenwood, Arkansas. Cooper, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who had served with the sheriff’s office for 19 years and was nearing retirement, was struck in the neck during an exchange of gunfire and later died at a hospital the same day. Hackett Police Chief Darrell Spells suffered a graze wound to the head; a police K-9 was also shot but later located alive.

The suspect, 35-year-old Billy Monroe Jones, had reportedly armed himself with a rifle and threatened his father. Jones barricaded himself inside his home, shot and disabled a police robot, and engaged in a standoff lasting more than four hours before surrendering. Jones was charged with capital murder and multiple counts of attempted capital murder, later pleading guilty and receiving life in prison without parole under a plea agreement.

Did anyone in the Greenwood area have additional details about the standoff or Cooper’s final assignment that day?