Marisela McHan

On a Sunday afternoon in the small city of Rockport, Arkansas, a police call about a shooting shattered the community’s peace. On February 23, 2025, officers from the Rockport Police Department were dispatched to a home in the 1700 block of Division Street around 4:30 p.m. Inside, they discovered Marisela McHan, a 50-year-old Hispanic woman, unresponsive in a lounge chair with an apparent gunshot wound to her head. She was pronounced dead at 7:33 p.m. that evening.

At the scene, authorities took Marisela’s husband, 51-year-old Floyd Anthony McHan, into custody. He was arrested and transported to the Hot Spring County Detention Center. The local police department requested assistance from the Arkansas State Police, whose Criminal Investigation Division took the lead on the homicide case. As part of the investigation, Marisela’s body was sent to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for an autopsy to determine the official cause and manner of death.

According to an affidavit filed by state police, Floyd McHan allegedly told an investigator at the scene that he had shot his wife. During a subsequent interview, he reportedly said that he and Marisela had argued frequently and that he had “pulled [his] pistol and shot her in the head.” The affidavit also stated that two young children, an infant and a toddler, were in the room at the time of the shooting.

Floyd McHan was formally charged with capital murder and two counts of first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor. Prosecutors are pursuing a sentence enhancement for committing the crime in the presence of children and are seeking a maximum sentence of life without parole. In April 2025, McHan appeared in Hot Spring County Circuit Court and pleaded not guilty to all charges. A judge set his bond at $1 million, and he has remained in custody.

The case has since proceeded through a series of callback hearings to allow attorneys to review evidence, including materials being processed by the state crime lab. As of a hearing in September 2025, the discovery process was still being finalized. The case remains in litigation, with another hearing scheduled for October 2025 to move toward setting a trial date.