UPDATE: New Iberia Police have issued an update in last week's robbery and shooting at a local store.
Eric James Francis, 57, has been arrested and booked into the Iberia Parish Jail on the charges of:
Attempted First Degree Murder
Armed Robbery
Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
The incident happened late Thursday.
Police say they were called to a store in the 200 block of Center Street around 10:30 p.m.
They found a man with at least one gunshot wound. The man was transported to a local hospital, then airlifted to another hospital.
Detectives conducted an investigation and learned that the wounded person entered the store armed with a "cutting instrument," walked around the counter and tried to rob the store's clerk. There was a struggle, and during that struggle the clerk shot the other person.
This is an ongoing investigation, police say.
