‘I figured she would shoot me since I was a witness,’ Residents at North Little Rock apartment complex shaken after deadly shooting

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The shooting at the Villas of Country Club on Thursday has left some residents shaken up.

North Little Rock police said they arrested 70-year-old Janis Bryant in the deadly shooting of 50-year-old Kristina Knotts Schwegel at the apartment complex. Billie Atkins said she was near the room where gunfire went off on Thursday.

“I got out of there because I figured she would shoot me since I was a witness,” Atkins said.

North Little Rock woman arrested in connection to shooting death of apartment complex employee

She said she was getting ready to talk to Villas of Country Club Apartment employee Schwengel, but said she was abruptly cut off by Bryant, another tenant there at the time…

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