Ex-police chief of Gateway held in slaying

Gateway Mayor Andrew Tillman was on the phone with his brother-in-law, who worked for the city, when the man was fatally shot by the town's former police chief, according to a probable-cause affidavit.

Grant Hardin, 48, was arrested Friday on a capital-murder count. Hardin, who lives at 15617 Gann Ridge Road in the northeast part of the county between Garfield and Gateway, was being held without bail Friday at the Benton County jail.

James Appleton's body was found about 4:15 p.m. Thursday inside a white pickup on Gann Ridge Road, according to Benton County Sheriff Shawn Holloway.

Holloway said Thursday evening that Appleton, 59, had been shot in the head. The body has been sent to the state Crime Laboratory in Little Rock.

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