Alleged shooter at Mississippi Mudbug Festival killed by officer

Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones mentioned the alleged shooter was killed by an officer responding to photographs fired on the fairgrounds.
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The sufferer killed on the Mississippi Mudbug Competition was one of many shooters behind the gunfire that injured 5 others, authorities mentioned Sunday.

Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones mentioned the alleged shooter, an unidentified man, was killed by an officer responding to photographs fired on the fairgrounds in Jackson on Saturday night time, information station WLBT reported.

“We imagine… that the sufferer that's deceased was actively concerned within the incident that was reported relating to the gunfire,” Jones advised reporters.

He declined to supply extra particulars in regards to the officer who fatally shot the alleged shooter.

“I can't reveal the title or the company the officer is affiliated with. That's one thing that may come out… at a later date,” he mentioned.

A minimum of six folks have been shot, together with the deceased male sufferer, Jackson mentioned.

“Different victims seem like secure presently and don’t seem like straight concerned within the capturing or circumstances that led to the capturing,” Jackson wrote on Twitter.

However he mentioned there could possibly be extra victims unaccounted for within the mass capturing.

“We're nonetheless checking different hospitals to see if different people had been shot and have been transported by personal automobiles to different hospitals as properly,” he advised reporters.

A minimum of six folks have been shot throughout the occasion.

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A minimum of two folks have been taken into custody in connection to the capturing, however a number of shooters presumably opened fireplace on the pageant, Jones mentioned. The 2 detained are juveniles.

“It’s very devastating and tragic,” Jones mentioned. “That is what's to be thought of a family-oriented occasion, for households from all totally different walks of life to return to a standard location to get pleasure from leisure and luxuriate in meals… You have got the reckless conduct of people with no regard for the lives and security of these attending the occasion.”

It’s unclear what prompted the capturing, however the investigation is ongoing, Jones mentioned.