A Mississippi community mourns the Loss of the substitute for a sheriff After he was shot and killed while he responded to a domestic call on Sunday evening.
Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones identified the killed deputy as the 37-year-old Martin Shields, Jr., in a Facebook message.
Shields was for about nine months at the Sheriff of Hinds County’s office, but “his career in the law enforcement goes beyond going beyond the HCSO,” said De Sheriff. Memorial posts on social media showed earlier employment at the Mississippi Department of Corrections and the Jackson Police Department.
Shields’ father withdrew from HCSO as a captain, according to the Jackson Fallen Firefighters Memorial Foundation.
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Hinds County Sheriff’s deputy Martin Shields, Jr., 37, (shown above during his term of office in the Jackson, Mississippi, police department) was shot and killed while responding to a domestic call on Sunday. (City of Jackson – Government / Facebook)
Limited details are available, but Jones had said a few hours earlier that a “very serious situation” took place in the 15000 block of Midway Road in Terry, Mississippi, That is about 15 miles southwest of Jackson.
Two delegates, shields and a non -created representative of Hinds County, responded to a domestic call in a home at the above address. Jones said he heard the other representative come across the radio who called for “fired shots” and went to the stage on Midway Road.
A “be on the lookout” alert was published on Sunday evening for Eric Brown, 42, who was “searched to ask about the situation on Midway Road” and was considered armed and dangerous. The warning was canceled somewhere before 10 p.m. when the police said there was no more active threat.
A Facebook message made at around 10:19 PM The death of the delegate And also said that a “non -created black male subject that was supposed to be related to the call” was found dead in the house on Midway Road. It was not said whether that person was brown.
Eric Brown, 42, was the subject of a “be on the lookout” alert on Sunday after the representative of a sheriff of Hinds County was shot and killed while he responded to a domestic call. (Hinds County Sheriff’s Office)
The investigation into the shooting remains active and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation helps.
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Jones wrote a sincere tribute to Shields on his professional Facebook page on Monday morning and shared that the two men had responded to a Kapseisboot together just earlier in the day. He said that while he responded to the “shots that fired” call, he took several times without an answer to Shields.
“The deputy who called” shots “was in survival mode because of the situation, but still performed very heroic actions. My heart dropped as I hurried to scene, received no response from the cases deputy. Just before my arrival, I learned that he had been shot down and had clearly died, “wrote Jones, adding that there was an” output of support “on the spot.
He said shielding “A hero died” And “While responding to a call to service to help someone in need.”
“He held his mission and his mission given by God. Pray for his family, his friends, the many lives he touched, and the men and women of the HCSO while we all prepare for a final greeting,” he wrote . “There is absolutely no way I could ever imagine or prepare myself to tell a family that their deputy will not come home from their Tour. Tragically, however, I was late tonight in that situation.”
Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones wrote a sincere tribute to killed deputy Martin Shields, Jr., and said he “died a hero” and “while he responded to a call for service to help someone in need.” (Running 4 Heroes/Facebook)
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The death of Shields marks the last murder in a fatal weekend for law enforcement throughout the country.
Two police officers in Virginia Beach died on Saturday morning after they were both shot while they made a traffic stop late on Friday evening.
In Pennsylvania, West York Borough Patrolman Andrew Duarte was shot and killed While on Saturday morning he responds to an active shooter in UPMC Memorial Hospital.
Fox News Digital has contacted the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones.
