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1 Mississippi police officer is killed and another is wounded in shooting in small town
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Date:2025-04-25 07:03:11
SUMMIT, Miss. (AP) — One police officer was shot and killed and another was wounded Thursday in a small town in southwestern Mississippi.
The shootings happened near a grocery store in Summit, the Enterprise-Journal reported. A Summit officer was confirmed dead, and a McComb officer was shot and wounded in one leg and was able to shoot back at a suspect, the newspaper said.
Details about what led to the shootings and about the suspect were not immediately available.
Summit is about 75 miles (121 kilometers) south of Mississippi’s capital city of Jackson, and McComb is about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) south of Summit, near the Louisiana state line.
Summit has a population of about 1,460.
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