Update: Suspect died at hospital. Police identified him as Pierre Woods.
Rankin County deputies shot a man who pointed a firearm at a law enforcement officer today in Pelahatchie. Police Chief Joe Daughtry said police responded to a call reporting shots fired. The standoff lasted for over an hour. Tear gas was eventually used in the house, forcing the suspect to emerge. Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said the suspect pointed a firearm at a law enforcement officer. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation will investigate the shooting. Chief Daughtry and Sheriff Bailey provided more information at a brief press conference.
A Pelahatchie resident, Fancy Gutta Lewis, managed to live stream the event on Facebook. The video is posted below. The shooting begins around 1:17:00.
16 comments:
Is Fancy Gutta our next JJ correspondent?
I wonder if she’s related to the Guttas of Canton.
I'm just glad Fancy Gutta and crew were off this President's Day and willing to sacrifice their lives to stand in the line of fire to get this footage.
Obviously a productive member of society
The conversation & ghetto talk in this video is completely out of bounds. She used the N word 32 times. Hard to listen to.
This was a total CF. You have all this law enforcement for 1 man holed up in a house then you pull all of your giant SUVs and your MRAP up to 10 feet away from the front door. What do you think is going to happen when you throw tear gas and a flash bang in there. The guy is coming out and you have your personnel so close to the house they have 0 time to assess if he’s a threat or not. And then an absolute free for all of firing. RCSO is the epitome of give a man a hammer and everything becomes a nail.
You people be careful. JJ will classify you as a Klukker. He's an expert on that subject, ya know.
Was that Janet Reno?
@4:46
We are all glad that you were there on the front line so you could report to the rest of us exactly what occurred. I assume your life was not at risk since you obviously never carry a firearm and seem to think LEO's shouldn't either. I'm glad you're such a brave soul.
@5:00
You shouldn't make it so obvious how much you are seething with rage.
My advice is to let it go. You aren't the first and won't be the last. There are some really belligerent trolls on this blog and KF has to filter out the pig poop.
Rankin County has a bad enough reputation concerning trailers, must the mobile crime lab also be a trailer?
@ 4:46 PM
I am the furthest one can get from a boot licking cop lover. But seriously, this guy started an armed stand-off. There is no question that RCSO was dealing with a deranged gunman.
Try as hard as you may, you cant equate this with Saint Trayvon or Michael Brown.
I will never understand why someone points a gun at LE.
There is almost a 100% chance of being shot and killed. It's been this way forever.
If he died at the hospital, those cops need some target practice. No telling how many shots were fired, and they couldn’t even kill him.
to 5pm why dont you layoff. KF is the only reporter in the history of mississippi journalism that has had the guts to tell the truth about the third world republic of mississippi.
7:22 - I agree. But he gets really trigger happy when he misses his meds. lol.
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