An Arkansas police officer is dead after a fluke incident in which he was struck by a stray bullet while in his home. 
 
 Capt. Joe Baker, of the West Memphis, Arkansas, police said the officer from nearby Forrest City was struck by the bullet at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon. The officer, identified as Oliver Johnson, was off-duty at the time and not involved in law enforcement activities when he was killed. 
 
 An altercation between two groups broke out and shots were fired outside of the officer’s residence, Baker said. Johnson was not the intended target. 
 
 WREG 
 
 Johnson was the father of two young girls, according to Memphis ABC affiliate WATN. 
 
 Baker also said a vehicle was involved, but was not able to confirm whether it was a drive-by shooting. 
 
 A full investigation is underway. 
 
 "Obviously it's a tragic situation when anybody is killed," Baker said at a press conference outside the victim's home. "This hits everybody a little close to home in law enforcement, he was a police officer. Some of our officers did in fact know him. Our cities are pretty close, a lot of our officers had interactions [with him]." 
 
 WATN 
 
 Johnson lived in West Memphis, Arkansas, just over the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee, but was a police officer with the Forrest City Police Department. Forrest City is located about 40 miles west of West Memphis. 
 
 Neighbors told WATN they heard as many as 40 shots outside Johnson's home. 
 
 "When I stepped outside one of his nephews yelled, 'My uncle has been shot.' So, when I went in the house, I found him shot and me and my husband tried to do CPR," neighbor Portia Weatherspoon told WATN. 

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 WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — An off-duty Forrest City Police Officer was shot and killed inside his West Memphis home Saturday afternoon, West Memphis Police confirmed. 
 
 The shooting happened around 3:30 p.m. at the Meadow Apartments, located on South Avalon Street. 
 
 Several children who were outside at the time scrambled to escape as a spray of gunshots rang out. 
 
 "We just heard about 40 gunshots," Neighbor and family member of the victim, Portia Weatherspoon said. 
 
 Weatherspoon says someone in a vehicle drove by and just started shooting. 
 
 At least one of those bullets hit and killed off-duty Forrest city officer Oliver Johnson, Jr. 
 
 Family members tell WREG he was just sitting inside his home with children, one of those children -- his young daughter. 
 
 One family member even tried to help by preforming CPR. 
 
 Police say they don't believe officer Johnson was targeted as he was just inside his own home. 
 
 "It was an encounter between the suspects and another group outside of the apartment," West Memphis Police Captain Joe Baker said. "This hits everyone a little close to home in law enforcement. He was a police officer, some of my officers did, in fact, know him." 
 
 Johnson's family tells WREG he has two daughters and him and his fiancee were planning a birthday party for his youngest daughter in the coming days. 
 
 They say officer Johnson was passionate, genuine and cared about those in the community.
– An off-duty Arkansas police officer was killed inside his home Saturday afternoon by a bullet fired from outside, reports ABC News. Oliver Johnson Jr. was fatally shot in West Memphis and was a member of the police department in neighboring Forrest City. Police don't think he was the intended target but was instead struck by a stray bullet as he sat inside. A relative tells WREG that someone drove by and unloaded some 40 shots. "It was an encounter between the suspects and another group outside of the apartment," says a police official. The investigation is continuing.