A drone hitting a ceiling fan could be what set off a suspect barricaded in a home to fire at police on the scene, fatally wounding a Madison Police officer Randy Tyler last week, according to Brandon Police.
We’re working to fill in some of the gaps in information after Thursday’s standoff that turned into a shootout in Brandon. Nearly eight hours of negotiations and exchanges of gunfire leaves one officer dead and another recovering in the hospital. Some of this story came from viewer questions. The main one, what happened to the house?
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety said that two Mississippi police officers were shot and one died Thursday during a standoff that started as a hostage situation in a home. According to The Associated Press, an unnamed person was holding a second unidentified person hostage inside a home in Brandon, a suburb of Jackson, Mississippi's capital city. The hostage situation reportedly began as a domestic dispute between a woman and man, and Police Chief Wayne Dearman said they first received a call of the situation at around 1:45 a.m. local time. Several law enforcement agencies responded during the eight-hour standoff, and after talking for more than an hour with the suspect, the department's SWAT team got into the house and rescued the hostage. The officer killed was from the police department in Madison. The injured officer is from the Brandon Police Department. State police spokesperson Bailey Martin said in a statement that the suspect also was shot and killed at th