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Channel 4 reports that the Rockport police and State Police are investigating a shooting by a police officer at a Walmart in Rockport, near Malvern. Details lacking at this point.

Fox 16 says the shooting may involve a suspect being sought by police in an earlier Hot Springs shooting.

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Channel 7 says events were precipitated by a Rockport police chase of a vehicle last seen being driven by a suspect in a Hot Springs shooting and robbery. The KATV account says the driver of the vehicle was killed, but has not been identified.

Turns out the chase began as local authorities pursued a suspect in a local store robbery near Bismarck and the man killed was the suspect in the Hot Springs robbery.

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UPDATE: Details follow from the State Police:

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