From Calibre Press Newsline:

"Law enforcement sadly lost another brother when Little Rock Officer Jack Cooper, 34, was shot Friday, Feb. 1, by an apparent EDP (that's "emotionally disturbed person" - Kit). He had 11 years on the job.

Cooper, along with officer Johnny Gravett, responded to the office of a Little Rock apartment complex regarding a report that 28-year-old William Clack had a knife and was acting strangely. The suspect claimed that he was a "vampire killer."

"He was talking out of his head and said his wife and child had been killed by vampires," said Lt. Terry Hastings, department spokesperson.

The officers calmly urged Clack, who was sitting on a couch, to come outside, but he refused.

"They talked to him for quite a while," Little Rock Police Detective Kevin Simpson told Newsline. But it didn't work and the officers had to grab him to escort him out. When they did, the 5-foot-10-inch Clack began struggling. They tried subduing him with pepper spray, but it was ineffective.

"Even though William Clack was considerably smaller than Officer Cooper and Officer Gravett, he seemed to have unusual strength, as we have learned that an EDP sometimes displays," said Simpson.

Clack somehow was able to knock officer Cooper (who is about 6 foot tall) onto his back, which is astonishing because Cooper was a strong man and could bench-press over 300 pounds, Simpson adderd.

While on top of Cooper, the suspect was able to grab the officer's .40 caliber pistol from its holster and fire one round that struck Cooper in the shoulder.

Officer Gravett then shot Clack once in the side before his pistol "stove piped," Simpson told Calibre Press. The suspect got one more shot off that struck the downed officer in the head below his left ear. Officer Gravett cleared the spent cartridge from the chamber and fired two more rounds into Clack's chest killing him.

Cooper was rushed to the hospital and was placed on life support, where he died at 10a.m. the next day.

This tragic incident was "a one in a million chance," said Little Rock Police Sgt. Terry Hastings. Officers are trained yearly, and sometimes monthly, on how to retain their weapons in a volatile situation, he said, and Little Rock officers are equipped with holsters that are angled so that only the officer can draw the weapon up and out.

"The holster we carry is a holdter that's designed to precent a suspect from getting a weapon away, but it's not a 100 percent sure thing."

"This extremely tragic situation, at the hands of an apparently deranged subject, reminds us of a varieoty of training points and safety iussues, that be recognizing and implementing can only only honor the memory and sacrifice of our fallen brother."