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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?
Two police officers in Mississippi were shot, and one of them died during a lengthy standoff that began when a man took a woman hostage in a home. The suspect was fatally shot.
1 officer and suspect dead, 1 officer wounded after Mississippi hostage standoff
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 resp...
A second officer was wounded Thursday during a standoff with a suspect in Brandon, according to the Rankin County Sheriff's Office.