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| Suspect caught in killing of Mississippi officer at station |
| 2019-05-07 |
| [AP] Less than 24 hours after police say a Mississippi man gunned down a uniformed officer in police station parking lot, the now-arrested suspect was marched on Monday night back into the same Biloxi police station. Biloxi Police Chief John Miller said one of his department’s officers was driving home through Wiggins, 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of the Gulf Coast city when the officer spotted a man at the side of the road who looked like the target of an intense manhunt. That officer’s suspicions were on the money. He called Wiggins police who in turn arrested 19-year-old Darian Tawan Atkinson, wanted for capital murder in the slaying of Biloxi Patrolman Robert McKeithen. Atkinson, tall and lanky in a blue and black baseball jersey, gave something close to a grin as officers yanked him from the back of a police cruiser and paraded him past watching reporters and cheering police officers back in Biloxi, only feet away from where McKeithen was gunned down after 10 p.m. Sunday night. The 23-year-veteran of the Biloxi force had been planning to retire this year. "It’s been a long couple of days," said Miller, who told reporters he was going to bed as he got news of the capture. "We feel vindicated. He’s been treated properly and fairly. And now we will grieve for the family." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 We don’t want police going out of their way to shoot bad people, because sometimes they turn out to have been good people... or at least innocent of that particular charge. And because sometimes bad people really do learn to choose goodness in prison. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-05-07 22:25 |
| #1 Why don't they just shoot them ? Now the lawyers will get to work. Say it's the hundreds of years of slavery that offended him and he cracked. That the socialist schooling system wasn't socialist enough. Or Trump had something to do with it. Anything but black delinquency. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-05-07 20:15 |