Arkansas State Police probe death of woman found after officer-involved Missouri shooting

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas State Police are investigating the death of an Arkansas woman whose body was found after an officer-involved shooting in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri asked the agency to get involved after investigators said they believed the woman identified as 45-year-old Clara Braxton, of Independence County, Arkansas was killed in Arkansas. The driver of the truck, 40-year-old Jarrett Cousins, of Bradford, Arkansas, exchanged gunfire with Missouri police officers on Sunday. He is in critical but stable condition. No officers were injured. Braxton’s body was found in the front passenger seat of Cousins’ truck. Her remains were sent to the Missouri Crime Lab to determine how she died.