Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey issued the following statement.
On Monday, April 25, Rankin County deputies were conducting a traffic stop on Interstate 20 westbound. As the deputies were conducting the traffic stop on the shoulder of the road, a white Infiniti sedan drove by the deputies in the lane adjacent to the shoulder at a recklessly high rate of speed. One of the deputies broke away and attempted to stop the driver of the Infiniti. The deputy attempted to stop the vehicle but it continued to flee at a high rate of speed. With the assistance of Brandon Police officers, the vehicle was spiked near the downtown Brandon exit and pulled off the road into a ditch nearby. As deputies pulled up, the suspect jumped out of the vehicle with an assault rifle and aimed it at the deputies. Deputies returned fire before the suspect eventually turned the rifle on himself and committed suicide. Deputies then discovered that the suspect had two children in the vehicle with him and rushed to attend to them. Both children were unharmed and immediately removed from the scene. The children were taken to the sheriff’s office and were placed in the custody of Child Protective Services. It was later discovered that the children were listed out of Florida as missing and endangered after being taken by the suspect who was listed as armed and dangerous. The scene was turned over to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations.
Sheriff Bailey thanks all law enforcement and first responders who assisted in this case.
12 comments:
Another shoot out with kids in a car. Thank the maker they lived !
Roadside conviction. Next case.
"Assault rifle?" Really, RCSO? I'd expect that from JPD, but you're better than this. Aside from that, good work.
@4:46
You assume it was an Armalite pattern sporting rifle. However, it may very well have been a pre-ban M1918A2. Who doesn't have at least one in their safe?
I was just leaving work and heading west on Lakeland Drive near Smith Wills when I was passed by a white GM sedan traveling at well over 100 mph. Several Flowood PD SUVs couple of hundred yards behind then passed me. I continued into Fondren where I met a Flowood PD SUV with the lights off. I rolled down my window and motioned to the Flowood officer to do the same. "Did he get away?", I asked, "he almost ran over me". "Yes, we were told to let him go". A JPD female officer was calmly enjoying her fried chicken in the parking lot of Fondren Fuel and never engaged. That Krispy Krunchy wing was obviously just too finger-licking good!
Prayers for the kids. PTSD can be a bear.
POS will not do that again.
What can we do to help the children? Does anyone know?
hmm that is what I would describe as a Bad Bad Monday.
Good job Rankin LEO
Hell is getting closer everyday my friends. Pray!
The shootout apparently, probably saved the children from being harmed. Thank the maker. Yes!!
Perhaps fortunately for the children, the perp apparently panicked when there was absolutely no reason for him to do so. Hardly unusual to come across a traffic stop on the side of the interstate. Makes you wonder if the perp was on something to act so irrationally. And maybe it was a case of the guilty fleeing when no man pursueth. Strange case, different from the one on the Coast some time back when a child was killed in a gunfight on the side of the interstate. In that case, law enforcement was trying to stop that perp, who had already committed murder and other crimes. Just glad the children in this case were not injured, but, as someone suggested, God only knows what trauma they have suffered, and not just from the gunfight.
6:11 :Amazing how many "chunky" with a gun are in both JPD and HCSD . And yes, you can find them regularly enjoying some sort of snack at any random quicky mart with attitude. Got have that sassy attitude.
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