A Pulaski County homeowner charged in the fatal shooting of a firefighter during a medical response earlier this year pleaded innocent Monday in circuit court.
Mark Pruitt, 48, is charged with manslaughter in the death of Ronald Jason Adams, 29, a volunteer with the East Pulaski Fire Department, Arkansas Online previously reported. If convicted, Pruitt could face up tot 10 years in prison.
Pruitt appeared Monday afternoon before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Barry Sims with his attorney, Hubert Alexander Jr., for his arraignment hearing.
Adams, also a full-time firefighter with the Sherwood Fire Department, was fatally shot while responding around 5 a.m. Jan. 22 to a patient with a seizure on Dortch Loop Road outside North Little Rock.