2 arrested in Mississippi for murder
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Police in Mississippi arrested a man and a woman and charged them with murder yesterday after two police officers were shot dead a day earlier as they conducted a routine traffic stop in Hattiesburg, a state official said.
Authorities had launched a manhunt after at least one suspect fled the scene of the shooting in a police car that was later found abandoned, and residents in the area about 130km southeast of Jackson were told to stay indoors.
Warren Strain, spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, said Marvin Banks, 29, and Joanie Calloway, 22, were each charged with two counts of capital murder. Banks鈥 brother Curtis, 26, was also arrested and charged with two counts of accessory after the fact of capital murder.
Strain said the three were arrested overnight at different locations in Hattiesburg. It was not immediately clear if they had attorneys.
The shooting took place on Saturday as one officer carried out a routine traffic stop on a gold Cadillac Escalade while a second arrived as backup. Two civilians called for help after finding the wounded officers on the ground.
They were pronounced dead at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg. It was the city鈥檚 first killing of a police officer since 1984, officials said.
The officers were named overnight as Liquori Tate and Benjamin Deen. Tate was a 25-year-old recent graduate from the police academy, while Deen, 34, was a police dog handler.
The Banks brothers are felons with multiple arrests for firearms charges.
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