Dispatcher Carjacked, Suspect at Large

A manhunt is underway in two states for an armed man who robbed a bank in Louisiana on Thursday, stole two cars, shot and killed a grocery customer, and then carjacked an off-duty sheriff’s dispatcher as she was pumping gas at a service station. Stephen Salsbury Jr. forced the unnamed Webster Parish dispatcher to drive him to Arkansas. At some point the dispatcher was able to shoot at the suspect with one of his guns, police say, and then escape without injury. Local, county and state police agencies are searching an area along the Louisiana-Arkansas border, and say it’s not clear if the suspect is wounded. Police say Saulsbury’s rampage began early Thursday when he broke into his ex-wife’s apartment looking for her husband. The suspect is armed with at least an AK-47 semi-auto rifle. Update: Deputy U.S. Marshals located Salsbury in Oklahoma City on Friday, sitting in the dispatcher’s vehicle at a Bass Pro store. As they closed in on him, he fatally shot himself. Police say “family problems” were the likely cause of Salsbury’s actions.