FORDYCE, Ark. (AP) — The sounds that filled the Mad Butcher grocery store on Tuesday — the beeping barcode scanners, the rattle of shopping carts and cash...
FORDYCE, Ark. — The sounds that filled the Mad Butcher grocery store on Tuesday — the beeping barcode scanners, the rattle of shopping carts and cash register drawers opening — were familiar ones for customers and employees of the only grocery store in the small Arkansas town of Fordyce.and injured 10 others in Mad Butcher and its parking lot. Community leaders called Tuesday's reopening an important part of the healing process for a town of 3,200 shocked by the mass shooting.
Kent J. Broughton, a pastor in Fordyce who was loading up his cart with watermelons, said the store's reopening restores a place for many in the community to connect with family or friends.“If you're bored and you need something to do, if you want to see somebody, just go to the grocery store,” Broughton said. “You're going to run into somebody you know, a friend or cousin or something, and you pick up from there.
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