Overview
- Deputies conducting a Dec. 3 welfare check discovered Charity Beallis, 40, and her two young children dead from gunshot wounds inside their Bonanza home.
- The Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office says search warrants have been executed, interviews conducted, and autopsies are pending, with no arrests announced.
- Court records show Beallis filed for divorce on March 5 and attended a final hearing on Dec. 2 at the Sebastian County Courthouse in Fort Smith.
- On Dec. 4, the estranged husband’s attorney moved to dismiss the divorce case, stating in the filing that the plaintiff had died.
- Earlier this year, Dr. Randall Beallis pleaded guilty to third-degree battery after a February arrest, while Charity sought full custody and a protective order and later criticized prosecutors for not protecting her family.