A situation that involved a man with a shotgun and possible propane tanks has ended without shots fired. The suspect is in custody at this time. The university has remained on lockdown during this situation and will continue to be until the scene is secure. No one was injured. The man was located on the east side of the Carl R. Reng Student Union in Heritage Lawn. No word as to who it was and what the motive was. That information will be provided soon by the Jonesboro Police Department.
Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.